Abstract
We demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, the use of a coherent polarization locked diode as the high-brightness pump source for a femtosecond laser. Four diode emitters are coherently locked to produce more than linearly polarized, narrow linewidth, and single-lobed pump beam. This gives brightness improvement over the conventional diode array. The diode beam is then used to pump a Yb:KYW laser to obtain output with 57% slope efficiency in cw laser operation. By using a saturable absorber mirror, we achieved cw mode-locking operation with a pulse width at an average power of .
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