A Simple Mode-Locked Yb:KGW Laser Pumped By Polarization-Coupled Diode Bars

Gary R. Holtom

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies
Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2006),
paper CMQ3

A Simple Mode-Locked Yb:KGW Laser Pumped By Polarization-Coupled Diode Bars

Gary R. Holtom

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2006

Long Beach, California United States
21–26 May 2006
ISBN: 1-55752-813-6

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G. R. Holtom, "A Simple Mode-Locked Yb:KGW Laser Pumped By Polarization-Coupled Diode Bars," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies, Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2006), paper CMQ3.

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Abstract

Direct-diode-pumped crystalline Yb lasers are simple and efficient but low powered. We use reshaped diode bars and a polarization-coupled scheme to produce as much as 6.3 W in 100 to 225 fs pulses.

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