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- Title
- Passive mode locking of a self-frequency-doubling Yb:YAl₃ (BO₃)₄ laser
- Related
- Optics letters, Vol. 27, Issue 6, p.436-438
- DOI
- 10.1364/OL.27.000436
- Publisher
- Optical Society of America
- Date
- 2002
- Author/Creator
- Lederer, M. J
- Author/Creator
- Hildebrandt, M
- Author/Creator
- Kolev, V. Z
- Author/Creator
- Luther-Davies, B
- Author/Creator
- Taylor, B
- Author/Creator
- Dawes, J
- Author/Creator
- Dekker, P
- Author/Creator
- Piper, J
- Author/Creator
- Tan, H. H
- Author/Creator
- Jagadish, C
- Description
- We report passive mode-locking experiments with a novel self-doubling laser crystal Yb:YAl₃BO₃4 (Yb:YAB). The diode-pumped laser was mode locked by an ion-implanted semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. Far off phase matching, soliton mode locking produced pulse widths of 198 fs to 1.4 ps, with up to 660-mW output and optical efficiency of 24% at 1040 nm. The shortest pulses had a peak power of 28 kW with 440-mW average power and 16% efficiency. A few degrees off phase matching, a total of 60 mW of green femtosecond pulses was generated simultaneously. Close to phase matching, the laser produced picosecond pulses and, without infrared output, a total of 270 mW of green output, corresponding to 10% conversion efficiency (absorbed pump to green output).
- Description
- 3 page(s)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Physics
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/26666
- Identifier
- ISSN:0146-9592
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2002014668
- Language
- eng
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