Publication: Diode-pumped, high-average-power femtosecond Cr3+: LiCAF laser
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Demirbas, Umit
Benedick, Andrew
Siddiqui, Aleein
Kaertner, Franz X.
Fujimoto, James G.
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We demonstrate a high-average-power continuous wave (cw) and cw mode-locked Cr3+: LiCAF laser pumped by broad-area laser diodes. In cw lasing experiments, up to 580 mW of output was obtained with 4.35 W of incident pump. A semiconductor saturable absorber mirror was used to initiate stable, self-starting, mode locking. In the cw mode-locked regime, the Cr3+: LiCAF laser produced nearly transform-limited, 67 fs long pulses near 800 nm with an average output power of 300 mW. The pulse repetition rate was 120 MHz, with a pulse energy of 2.5 nJ.
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Optical Society of America (OSA)
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Optics, Semiconductor lasers, Pulse repetition rate, Laser mode locking
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Optics Letters
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10.1364/OL.32.003309
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