Femtosecond pulse operation of a Tm,Ho-codoped crystalline laser near 2 μm

A.A. Lagatsky; F. Fusari; S. Calvez; S.V. Kurilchik; V.E. Kisel; N.V. Kuleshov; M.D. Dawson; C.T.A. Brown; W. Sibbett

doi:10.1364/OL.35.000172

Femtosecond pulse operation of a Tm,Ho-codoped crystalline laser near 2 μm

A.A. Lagatsky
, F. Fusari
, S. Calvez
, S.V. Kurilchik
, V.E. Kisel
, N.V. Kuleshov
, M.D. Dawson
, C.T.A. Brown
, W. Sibbett

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Abstract

We demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, femtosecond-regime mode locking of a Tm,Ho-codoped crystalline laser operating in the 2 m spectral region. Transform-limited 570 fs pulses were generated at 2055 nm by a Tm,Ho:KYWO42 laser that produced an average output power of 130 mW at a pulse repetition frequency of 118 MHz. Mode locking was achieved using an ion-implanted InGaAsSb quantum-wellbased semiconductor saturable absorber mirror.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	172-174
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	35
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.35.000172
Publication status	Published - 15 Jan 2009

Keywords

lasers
solid state lasers
laser optics
ultrafast optics

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MUSIC: MODULAR ULTRAFAST SOURCES
Calvez, S. (Principal Investigator), Burns, D. (Co-investigator) & Dawson, M. (Co-investigator)
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
1/09/07 → 30/09/11
Project: Research
ADVANCED SOLID STATE LASER SOURCES AND SYSTEMS
Ferguson, A. (Principal Investigator), Burns, D. (Co-investigator), Calvez, S. (Co-investigator), Dawson, M. (Co-investigator), Girkin, J. (Co-investigator), Hastie, J. (Co-investigator) & Kemp, A. (Co-investigator)
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
1/10/06 → 30/09/11
Project: Research

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