Kerr-lens mode-locked Tm,Ho:Ca(Gd,Y)AlO4 laser
We demonstrate Kerr-lens mode-locked operation of a Tm,Ho:Ca(Gd,Y)AlO4 laser pumped with a narrow-bandwidth, continuous-wave Ti:sapphire laser at 797 nm. Soliton pulses as short as 145 fs are generated at 2087.9 nm in -polarization via soft-aperture Kerr-lens mode-locking, with an average output power of 203 mW (0.2% output coupler) at ~80.5 MHz. To the best of our knowledge, this result represents the first demonstration of a Kerr-lens mode-locked laser based on a Tm,Ho:Ca(Gd,Y)AlO4 crystal exhibiting both structural and compositional disorder.
Authors
- Kirill Eremeev
- Uwe Griebner
- Valentin Petrov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7247-6145)
- Pavel Loiko
- Peixiong Zhang
- Ge Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4878-9437)
- Zhen Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0519-2905)
- Weidong Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9802-2165)
- Xavier Mateos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1940-1990)
- Zhenqiang Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4464-0267)
- Zhang-Lang Lin
- Alain Braud
Institutions
- Normandie Université (FR)
- Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (CN)
- Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (DE)
- Universitat Rovira i Virgili (ES)
- Université de Caen Normandie (FR)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-01-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3042832
- Primary Topic
- Solid State Laser Technologies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
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