Continuous-wave and femtosecond laser operation of Yb:CaGdAlO4 under high-power diode pumping

Justine Boudeile (1) , Frédéric Druon (1) , Marc Hanna (1) , Patrick Georges (1) , Yoann Zaouter (2) , Eric Cormier (2) , J. Petit (3) , Philippe Goldner (3) , Bruno Viana (3)

1 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Elsa
2 Amplitude Systèmes
3 LCAES - Laboratoire de Chimie Appliquée de l'État Solide

We demonstrate the generation of 68 fs secant hyperbolic pulses at a 105 MHz repetition rate with an average power of 520 mW from a diode-pumped Yb3+:CaGdAlO4 mode-locked laser. A semiconductor saturable absorber allows passive mode locking, and a 15 W diode laser is used to pump directly the crystal. To our knowledge this represents the highest average power ever obtained for a sub-100 fs diode-pumped Yb-bulk laser

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Justine Boudeile, Frédéric Druon, Marc Hanna, Patrick Georges, Yoann Zaouter, et al.. Continuous-wave and femtosecond laser operation of Yb:CaGdAlO4 under high-power diode pumping. Optics Letters, 2007, 32 (14), pp.1962-1964. ⟨hal-00700690⟩