25-fs Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:Ca(Gd,Y)AlO4 laser
We demonstrate Kerr-lens mode-locked operation of an Yb:Ca(Gd,Y)AlO4 laser pumped with a 976-nm single transverse-mode, fiber-coupled laser diode. Soliton pulses as short as 25 fs are generated at 1080 nm via soft-aperture Kerr-lens mode-locking, with an average output power of 47 mW at ~65.6 MHz. To the best of our knowledge, this result represents the first demonstration of a diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked laser based on an Yb:Ca(Gd,Y)AlO4 crystal exhibiting both structural and compositional disorder.
Authors
- Wenjie Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8589-4081)
- Hsing-Chih Liang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4361-0629)
- Valentin Petrov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7247-6145)
- Pavel Loiko
- Peixiong Zhang
- Simone Normani
- Ge Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6929-0956)
- Zhen Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0333-7699)
- Weidong Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9802-2165)
- Zhiqiang Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0174-9254)
- Haiyu Nie
- Huang-Jun Zeng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6279-3727)
- Xavier Mateos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1940-1990)
- Zhenqiang Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4464-0267)
- Zhang-Lang Lin
Institutions
- National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (TW)
- Normandie Université (FR)
- Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (CN)
- Universitat Rovira i Virgili (ES)
- Université de Caen Normandie (FR)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-01-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3042801
- Primary Topic
- Solid State Laser Technologies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
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