Diode-pumped mode-locked Yb3+:Lu2O3 ceramic laser

doi:10.1364/OE.14.012832

Diode-pumped mode-locked Yb³⁺:Lu₂O₃ ceramic laser

M. Tokurakawa, K. Takaichi, A. Shirakawa, K. Ueda, H. Yagi, S. Hosokawa, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 14, Issue 26, pp. 12832-12838 (2006)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.14.012832

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We report a diode-pumped passively mode-locked Yb³⁺:Lu₂O₃ ceramic laser by use of a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. Almost transform-limited 357 fs pulses at the center wavelength of 1033.5 nm with a maximum average power of 352 mW are obtained. The efficiency against the absorbed pump power is as high as 32% by use of a laser-diode pumping and the repetition rate is 97 MHz. This is the first demonstration of a diode-pumped mode-locked Yb³⁺:Lu₂O₃ ceramic laser to our knowledge.

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(140.3480) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, diode-pumped
(140.4050) Lasers and laser optics : Mode-locked lasers
(140.5680) Lasers and laser optics : Rare earth and transition metal solid-state lasers
(160.3380) Materials : Laser materials

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Lasers and Laser Optics

History
Original Manuscript: June 19, 2006
Revised Manuscript: October 16, 2006
Manuscript Accepted: December 11, 2006
Published: December 22, 2006

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M. Tokurakawa, K. Takaichi, A. Shirakawa, K. Ueda, H. Yagi, S. Hosokawa, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, "Diode-pumped mode-locked Yb³⁺:Lu₂O₃ ceramic laser," Opt. Express 14, 12832-12838 (2006)
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E. Innerhofer, T. Südmeyer, F. Brunner, R. Häring, A. Aschwanden, R. Paschotta, C. Hönninger, M. kumkar, and U. Keller, "60-W average power in 810-fs pulses from a thin-disk Yb:YAG laser," Opt. Lett. 28, 367-369 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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A. Lucca, G. Debourg, M. Jacquemet, F. Druon, F. Balembois, P. Georges, P. Camy, J. L. Doualan, and R. Moncorgé, "High-power diode-pumped Yb3+:CaF2 femtosecond laser," Opt. Lett. 29, 2767-2769 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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K. Takaichi, H. Yagi, A. Shirakawa, K. Ueda, S. Hosokawa, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, "Lu2O3:Yb3+ ceramics - a novel gain material for high-power solid-state lasers," Phys. Status. Solidi. 202, R1-R3 (2005).Q4 [CrossRef]
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A. Shirakawa, K. Takaichi, H. Yagi, M. Tanisho, J. F. Bisson, J. Lu, K. Ueda, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, "First mode-locked ceramic laser: Femtosecond Yb3+:Y2O3 ceramic laser," Laser Phys. 14, 1375-1381 (2004).
M. Tokurakawa, K. Takaichi, A. Shirakawa, K. Ueda, H. Yagi, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, "Diode-pumped 188-fs mode-locked Yb3+:Y2O3 ceramic laser," (Submitted to Appl. Phys. Lett.).
J. Saikawa, Y. Sato, T. Taira, and A. Ikesue, "Passive mode locking of a mixed garnet Yb:Y3ScAl4O12 ceramic laser," Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 5845-5847 (2004). [CrossRef]
D. Bloor and J. R. Dean, "Spectroscopy of rare earth oxide systems:I. Far infrared spectra of the rare earth sesquioxide, and nonstoichiometric praseodymium and terbium oxide," J. Phys. C 5, 1237-1252 (1972).Q5 [CrossRef]
L. D. DeLoach, S. A. Payne, L. L. Chase, L. K. Smith, W. L. Kway, and W. F. Krupke, "Evaluation of absorption and emission properties of Yb3+ doped crystals for laser application," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 29, 1179-1191 (1993). [CrossRef]
C. Hönninger, R. Paschotta, F. Morier-Genoud, M. Moser, and U. Keller, "Q -switching stability limits of continuous-wave passive mode locking," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 16, 46-56 (1999). [CrossRef]
M. J. Lederer, B. Luther-Davies, H. H. Tan, C. Jagadish, N. N. Akhmediev, and J. M. Soto-Crespo, "Multipulse operation of a Ti:sapphire laser mode locked by an ion-implanted semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 16, 895-904 (1999). [CrossRef]

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[1] F. Brunner, T. Sdmeyer, E. Innerhofer, F. Morier-Genoud, R. Paschotta, V. E. Kisel, V. G. Shcherbitsky, N. V. Kuleshov, J. Gao, K. Contag, A. Giesen, and U. Keller, "240-fs pulses with 22-W average power from a mode-locked thin-disk Yb:KY(WO4)2 laser, " Opt. Lett. 27, 1162-1164 (2002). [CrossRef]

[2] F. Druon, S. Chnais, P. Raybaut, F. Balembois, P. Georges, R. Gaum, G. Aka, B. Viana, S. Mohr, and D. Kopf, "Diode-pumped Yb:Sr3Y(BO3)3 femtosecond laser," Opt. Lett. 27, 197-199 (2002). [CrossRef]

[3] E. Innerhofer, T. Südmeyer, F. Brunner, R. Häring, A. Aschwanden, R. Paschotta, C. Hönninger, M. kumkar, and U. Keller, "60-W average power in 810-fs pulses from a thin-disk Yb:YAG laser," Opt. Lett. 28, 367-369 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[4] F. Druon, F. Balembois, and P. Georges, "Ultra-short-pulsed and highly-efficient diode-pumped Yb:SYS mode-locked oscillators," Opt. Express 12, 5005-5012 (2004) [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[5] A. Lucca, G. Debourg, M. Jacquemet, F. Druon, F. Balembois, P. Georges, P. Camy, J. L. Doualan, and R. Moncorgé, "High-power diode-pumped Yb3+:CaF2 femtosecond laser," Opt. Lett. 29, 2767-2769 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[6] V. E. Kisel, A. E. Troshin, V. G. Shcherbitsky, N. V. Kuleshov, V. N. Matrosov, T. A. Matrosova, M. I. Kupchenko, F. Brunner, R. Paschotta, F. Morier-Genoud, and U. Keller, "Femtosecond pulse generation with a diode-pumped Yb3+:YVO4 laser," Opt. Lett. 30, 1150-1152 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[7] U. Griebner, S. Rivier, V. Petrov, M. Zorn, G. Erbert, M. Weyers, X. Mateos, M. Aguiló, J. Massons, and F. Díaz, "Passively mode-locked Yb:KLu(WO4)2 oscillators, " Opt. Express 13, 3465-3470 (2005) [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[8] Y. Zaouter, J. Didierjean, F. Balembois, G. L. Leclin, F. Druon, P. Georges, J. Petit, P. Goldner, and B .iana, "47-fs diode-pumped Yb3+:CaGdAlO4 laser," Opt. Lett. 31, 119-121 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[9] A. A. Kaminskii. Laser Crystals, 2nd ed. (Springer Berlin, 1990); Handbook of optical Materials. Ed. By M. J. Weber (CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2003).

[10] K. Petermann, L. Fornasiero, E. Mix, and V. Peters, "High melting sesquioxides: crystal growth, spectroscopy, and laser experiments," Opt. Mater. 19, 67-71 (2002). [CrossRef]

[11] Yu. Senatsky, A. Shirakawa, Y. Sato, J. Hagiwara, J. Lu, K. Ueda, H. Yagi, and T. Yanagitani, "Nonlinear refractive index of ceramic laser media and perspectives of their usage in a high-power laser-driver," Laser Phys. Lett. 1, 500-506 (2004).Q1 [CrossRef]

[12] K. Petermann, G. Huber, L. Fornasiero, S. Kuch, E. Mix, V. Peters, and S.A. Basun, "Rare-earth-doped sesquioxides," J. Lumin. 87, 973-975 (2000).Q2 [CrossRef]

[13] P. Klopp, V. Petrov, U. Griebner, K. Petermann, V. Peters, and G. Erbert, "Highly efficient mode-locked Yb:Sc2O3 laser," Opt. Lett. 29, 391-393 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[14] U. Griebner, V. Petrov, K. Petermann, and V. Peters, "Passively mode-locked Yb:Lu2O3 laser," Opt. Express 12, 3125-3130 (2004) [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[15] T. Yanagitani, H. Yagi, and M. Ichikawa, Japanese Patent No.10-101333 (1998).

[16] T. Yanagitani, H. Yagi, and Y. Yamasaki, Japanese Patent No.10-101411 (1998).

[17] A. A. Kaminskii, S. N. Bagayev, K. Ueda, K. Takaichi, A. Shirakawa, S. N. Ivanov, E. N. Khazanov, A. V. Taranov, H. Yagi, and T. Yanagitani, "New results on characterization of highly transparent nanocrystalline C-modification Lu2O3 nanocrystalline ceramics: room-temperature tunable CW laser action of Yb3+ ions under LD-pumping and the propagation kinetics of non-equilibrium acoustic phonons," Laser Phys. Lett. 3, 375-379 (2006).Q3 [CrossRef]

[18] A. A. Kaminskii, M. Akchurin, R. Gainutdinov, K. Takaichi, A. Shirakawa, H. Yagi, T. Yanagitani, and K. Ueda, "Microharness and fracture toughness of Y2O3- and Y3Al5O12-based nanocrystalline laser ceramics," Crystallography Report 50, 869-873 (2005). [CrossRef]

[19] K. Takaichi, H. Yagi, J. Lu, J. F. Bisson, A. Shirakawa, K. Ueda, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, "Highly efficient continuous-wave operation at 1030 and 1075 nm wavelengths of LD-pumped Yb3+:Y2O3 ceramic lasers," Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 317-319 (2004). [CrossRef]

[20] K. Takaichi, H. Yagi, A. Shirakawa, K. Ueda, S. Hosokawa, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, "Lu2O3:Yb3+ ceramics - a novel gain material for high-power solid-state lasers," Phys. Status. Solidi. 202, R1-R3 (2005).Q4 [CrossRef]

[21] J. Lu, J. F. Bisson, K. Takaichi, T. Uematsu, A. Shirakawa, M. Musha, K. Ueda, H. Yagi, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, "Yb3+:Sc2O3 ceramic laser," Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 1101-1103 (2003). [CrossRef]

[22] A. Shirakawa, K. Takaichi, H. Yagi, J. Bisson, J. Lu, M. Musha, K. Ueda, T. Yanagitani, T. Petrov, and A. Kaminskii, "Diode-pumped mode-locked Yb3+:Y2O3 ceramic lasers," Opt. Express 11, 2911-2916 (2003) [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[23] A. Shirakawa, K. Takaichi, H. Yagi, M. Tanisho, J. F. Bisson, J. Lu, K. Ueda, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, "First mode-locked ceramic laser: Femtosecond Yb3+:Y2O3 ceramic laser," Laser Phys. 14, 1375-1381 (2004).

[24] M. Tokurakawa, K. Takaichi, A. Shirakawa, K. Ueda, H. Yagi, T. Yanagitani, and A. A. Kaminskii, "Diode-pumped 188-fs mode-locked Yb3+:Y2O3 ceramic laser," (Submitted to Appl. Phys. Lett.).

[25] J. Saikawa, Y. Sato, T. Taira, and A. Ikesue, "Passive mode locking of a mixed garnet Yb:Y3ScAl4O12 ceramic laser," Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 5845-5847 (2004). [CrossRef]

[26] D. Bloor and J. R. Dean, "Spectroscopy of rare earth oxide systems:I. Far infrared spectra of the rare earth sesquioxide, and nonstoichiometric praseodymium and terbium oxide," J. Phys. C 5, 1237-1252 (1972).Q5 [CrossRef]

[27] L. D. DeLoach, S. A. Payne, L. L. Chase, L. K. Smith, W. L. Kway, and W. F. Krupke, "Evaluation of absorption and emission properties of Yb3+ doped crystals for laser application," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 29, 1179-1191 (1993). [CrossRef]

[28] C. Hönninger, R. Paschotta, F. Morier-Genoud, M. Moser, and U. Keller, "Q -switching stability limits of continuous-wave passive mode locking," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 16, 46-56 (1999). [CrossRef]

[29] M. J. Lederer, B. Luther-Davies, H. H. Tan, C. Jagadish, N. N. Akhmediev, and J. M. Soto-Crespo, "Multipulse operation of a Ti:sapphire laser mode locked by an ion-implanted semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 16, 895-904 (1999). [CrossRef]

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