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Passively mode-locked and cavity-dumped Yb:KY(WO4)2 oscillator with positive dispersion

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Opt. Express, 15 (24): 16017--16021 (November 2007)
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016017

Abstract

We demonstrate, what is to our knowledge the first passively mode-locked Ytterbium based solid state high energy laser oscillator operated in the positive dispersion regime. Compared to solitary mode-locking the pulse energy can be increased with even broader spectral bandwidth. With high speed cavity dumping the laser generates 2 µJ-pulses at a 1 MHz repetition rate. The chirped output pulses are compressible down to 420 fs.

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