240-fs pulses with 22-W average power from a mode-locked thin-disk Yb:KY(WO(4))(2) laser.
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چکیده
We demonstrate what is to our knowledge the first passively mode-locked thin-disk Yb:KY(WO(4))(2) laser. The laser produces pulses of 240-fs duration with an average power of 22 W at a center wavelength of 1028 nm. At a pulse repetition rate of 25 MHz, the pulse energy is 0.9microJ , and the peak power is as high as 3.3 MW. The beam quality is very close to the diffraction limit, with M(2)=1.1 .
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Optics letters
دوره 27 13 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002