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Opt Lett ; 41(20): 4668-4671, 2016 Oct 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28005863

ABSTRACT

A 2 µm chirped pulse amplification source generates 55 mJ picosecond pulses at a 1 kHz repetition rate. The system consists of a high-gain Ho:YLF regenerative amplifier (RA) operating in the single-energy regime and a dual-rod Ho:YLF power amplifier. Pulses of ∼10 mJ energy from the RA are linearly scaled up to 55 mJ in the power amplifier, corresponding to a high overall extraction efficiency of >20%. The system displays an exceptional high stability with a pulse-to-pulse rms as low as 0.3%. Pulse compression is performed up to the 25 mJ energy level, resulting in pulses close to the Fourier-transform limit with a duration of 4.3 ps and a peak power of 4.4 GW.

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Appl Opt ; 55(18): 4877-87, 2016 Jun 20.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27409113

ABSTRACT

A Ho:YAG ceramic microchip laser pumped by a Tm fiber laser at 1910 nm is passively Q-switched by single- and multi-layer graphene, single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), and Cr2+:ZnSe saturable absorbers (SAs). Employing SWCNTs, this laser generated an average power of 810 mW at 2090 nm with a slope efficiency of 68% and continuous wave to Q-switching conversion efficiency of 70%. The shortest pulse duration was 85 ns at a repetition rate of 165 kHz, and the pulse energy reached 4.9 µJ. The laser performance and pulse stability were superior compared to graphene SAs even for a different number of graphene layers (n=1 to 4). A model for the description of the Ho:YAG laser Q-switched by carbon nanostructures is presented. This modeling allowed us to estimate the saturation intensity for multi-layered graphene and SWCNT SAs to be 1.2±0.2 and 7±1 MW/cm2, respectively. When using Cr2+:ZnSe, the Ho:YAG microchip laser generated 11 ns/25 µJ pulses at a repetition rate of 14.8 kHz.

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Opt Lett ; 41(11): 2620-3, 2016 Jun 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27244429

ABSTRACT

A diode-pumped Yb:KLu(WO4)2 microchip laser passively Q-switched by a Cr4+:YAG saturable absorber generated a maximum average output power of 590 mW at 1031 nm with a slope efficiency of 55%. The pulse characteristics were 690 ps/47.6 µJ at a pulse repetition frequency of 12.4 kHz. The output beam had an excellent circular profile with M2<1.05. Yb:KLu(WO4)2 is very promising for ultrathin sub-ns microchip lasers.

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Appl Opt ; 55(14): 3757-63, 2016 May 10.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27168288

ABSTRACT

A diode-pumped Tm,Ho:KLu(WO4)2 microchip laser passively Q-switched with a Cr:ZnS saturable absorber generated an average output power of 131 mW at 2063.6 nm with a slope efficiency of 11% and a Q-switching conversion efficiency of 58%. The pulse characteristics were 14 ns/9 µJ at a pulse repetition frequency of 14.5 kHz. With higher modulation depth of the saturable absorber, 9 ns/10.4 µJ/8.2 kHz pulses were generated at 2061.1 nm, corresponding to a record peak power extracted from a passively Q-switched Tm,Ho laser of 1.15 kW. A theoretical model is presented, predicting the pulse energy and duration. The simulations are in good agreement with the experimental results.

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Opt Lett ; 37(17): 3555-7, 2012 Sep 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22940947

ABSTRACT

We report successful energy scaling of a room-temperature femtosecond Cr4+: forsterite laser by using a single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber (SWCNT-SA). By incorporating a q-preserving multipass cavity, a repetition rate of 4.51 MHz was realized, and the oscillator produced 121 fs, 10 nJ pulses at 1247 nm, with an average output power of 46 mW. To the best of our knowledge, the peak power of 84 kW is the highest generated to date from a SWCNT-SA mode-locked oscillator. Furthermore, energy scaling of a femtosecond multipass-cavity laser, mode-locked using a SWCNT-SA, is demonstrated for the first time.

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Opt Express ; 18(6): 6230-40, 2010 Mar 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20389646

ABSTRACT

Supercontinuum generation in a water-filled photonic crystal fiber is reported. By only filling the central hollow core of this fiber with water, the fiber properties are changed such that the air cladding provides broadband guiding. Using a pump wavelength of 1200 nm and few-microjoule pump pulses, the generation of supercontinua with two-octave spectral coverage from 410 to 1640 nm is experimentally demonstrated. Numerical simulations confirm these results, revealing a transition from a soliton-induced mechanism to self-phase modulation dominated spectral broadening with increasing pump power. Compared to supercontinua generated in glass core photonic fibers, the liquid core supercontinua show a higher degree of coherence, and the larger mode field area and the higher damage threshold of the water core enable significantly higher pulse energies of the white light pulses, ranging up to 0.39microJ.


Subject(s)
Fiber Optic Technology/instrumentation , Lasers , Lighting/instrumentation , Water , Crystallization , Equipment Design , Equipment Failure Analysis
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Opt Express ; 18(7): 7228-42, 2010 Mar 29.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20389744

ABSTRACT

By means of micro-structural and optical characterization of the Yb:Nb:RbTiOPO(4) crystal, we demonstrated that the broad emission band of Yb(3+) in these crystals is due to the large splitting of the ytterbium ground state only, and not to a complex multisite occupation by the ytterbium ions in the crystals. We used this broad emission band to demonstrate wide laser tuning range and generation of femtosecond laser pulses. Passive mode-locked laser operation has been realized by using a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror, generating ultra short laser pulses of 155 fs, which were very stable in time, under Ti:sapphire laser pumping at 1053 nm.

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Opt Express ; 15(9): 5885-92, 2007 Apr 30.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19532848

ABSTRACT

High-quality monoclinic planar waveguide crystals of Tm-doped KY(WO(4))(2) were grown by liquid-phase epitaxy with several dopant concentrations and thicknesses. Waveguide lasing in the 2 mum spectral range was demonstrated in the fundamental mode. The maximum continuous-wave output power achieved was 32 mW using a Ti:sapphire laser pump near 800 nm.

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Opt Express ; 13(9): 3465-70, 2005 May 02.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19495250

ABSTRACT

We demonstrate passive mode locking based on the novel monoclinic double tungstate crystal Yb:KLu(WO4)2. We report the shortest pulses ever produced with an Yb-doped tungstate laser using a semiconductor saturable absorber. A pulse duration of 81 fs has been achieved for an average power of 70 mW at 1046 nm. We compare the performance of the polarization oriented parallel to the Nm- and Np-crystallo-optic axes. Results in the femtosecond and picosecond regime are presented applying either Ti:sapphire or diode laser pumping. The great potential of Yb:KLu(WO4)2 as an active medium for ultrashort pulses is demonstrated for the first time, to our knowledge.

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Opt Express ; 12(14): 3125-30, 2004 Jul 12.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19483832

ABSTRACT

Given its specific thermal characteristics, the sesquioxide crystal Lu(2)O(3) is a particularly promising laser host material. We demonstrate mode locking of a Yb:Lu(2)O(3) laser by use of a semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror. The laser emits up to 470 mW in the picosecond regime, corresponding to a pump efficiency as high as 32%. With dispersion compensation, pulses as short as 220 fs at an average power of 266 mW are obtained at 1033.5 nm. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a femtosecond oscillator based on Yb:Lu(2)O(3).

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Opt Express ; 12(22): 5362-7, 2004 Nov 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19484097

ABSTRACT

Lasing of Yb3+ in a disordered single crystal host, NaGd(WO4)2, is reported. Pump efficiencies as high as 20% and slope efficiencies as high as 30% are achieved for both sigma- and pi-polarizations with Ti:sapphire laser pumping. The emission of Yb:NaGd(WO4)2 is centered near 1030 nm. Tunability between 1016 and 1049 nm is obtained with a Lyot filter.

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Opt Lett ; 28(23): 2399-401, 2003 Dec 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-14680195

ABSTRACT

Combined spatially resolved collinear autocorrelation and Shack-Hartmann wave-front sensing of femtosecond laser pulses is demonstrated for the first time to our knowledge. The beam is divided into multiple nondiffracting subbeams by thin-film micro-optical arrays. With hybrid refractive-reflective silica/silver microaxicons, wave-front autocorrelation is performed in oblique-angle reflection. Simultaneous two-dimensional detection of local temporal structure and wave-front tilt of propagating few-cycle wave packets is demonstrated.

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Opt Lett ; 28(5): 322-4, 2003 Mar 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12659432

ABSTRACT

For the first time to the authors' knowledge, continuous-wave laser emission of the stoichiometric crystal KYb(WO4)2 was achieved at 1068 nm. The 125-microm-thin sample was directly water cooled and pumped at 1025 nm by a Ti:sapphire laser. The maximum output power at room temperature was 20 mW.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 88(17): 173901, 2002 Apr 29.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12005754

ABSTRACT

We report on an experimental study of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers with low-intensity femtosecond pulses, which provides evidence for a novel spectral broadening mechanism. The observed results agree with our theoretical calculations carried out without making the slowly varying envelope approximation. Peculiarities of the measured spectra and their theoretical explanation demonstrate that the reason for the white-light generation in photonic crystal fibers is fission of higher-order solitons into redshifted fundamental solitons and blueshifted nonsolitonic radiation.

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J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis ; 18(11): 2923-31, 2001 Nov.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11688883

ABSTRACT

Small-angle, noncollinear, first- and second-order interferometric autocorrelation experiments with Ti:sapphire laser pulses of 9-80-fs duration have been performed with microaxicon arrays. Predictions of short-pulse spatial frequency effects were verified by comparison of interference patterns of single elements and matrices. An angular spectrum of Gaussian-shaped axicons was analyzed on the basis of linear refraction. Experimental data indicate contributions to autocorrelation by nonlinear refraction and travel-time differences. The influence of the spectral bandwidth was separated from the pulse-duration-dependent effects. Spatially resolved information about the coherence time was delivered by the multichannel structure.

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Opt Lett ; 25(13): 981-3, 2000 Jul 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18064247

ABSTRACT

Multiple quasi-Bessel beams are generated by transmission of sub-30-fs pulses from a Ti:sapphire laser through refractive thin-film microaxicon arrays. Time-integrated intensity distributions at several axial positions and for pulse durations of 26 and 12.5 fs reveal significant changes of contrast, envelope function, and spatial frequency spectrum in comparison with continuous wave data. Evidence is presented that strong space-time coupling results in a time-dependent interference zone.

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Opt Lett ; 24(11): 750-2, 1999 Jun 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18073843

ABSTRACT

We report laser action of a crystal channel-waveguide laser consisting of a diffusion-bonded Yb:YAG-YAG core-cladding structure. By use of diode bars a side-pumped arrangement adapted to the channel-waveguide geometry was realized, resulting in up to 1-W output power and a low threshold. With a rectangular core with a 100-mum cross section, nearly diffraction-limited performance is demonstrated. The influence of the guiding properties of the channel waveguide on the resonator mode was studied with a nearly concentric resonator.

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Opt Lett ; 22(6): 408-10, 1997 Mar 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18183217

ABSTRACT

Passive cw mode locking of an ytterbium-doped fluoride phosphate glass laser is demonstrated, for what we believe to be the first time, based solely on the Kerr effect in the active medium in a resonator with dispersion compensation. Nearly bandwidth-limited pulses as short as 160fs are generated at ~1040 nm. We obtain average output powers as high as 250mW at 170-MHz repetition rate with absorbed pump power as low as 1.2W.

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Opt Lett ; 21(4): 266-8, 1996 Feb 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19865374

ABSTRACT

Laser performance of a diode-pumped Nd-doped multimode phosphate-glass fiber is reported. The selection of the fundamental mode in a multimode fiber is demonstrated, resulting in laser emission that is close to diffraction limited and that is nearly independent of the pump power. The heavily Nd-doped fibers with core diameters of 100 microm and lengths between 13 and 32 mm deliver as much as 130 mW of cw output power at 1.053 microm. A total efficiency of 31% with respect to launched pump power has been achieved.

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