Diode-pumped femtosecond Tm3+-doped LuScO3 laser near 2.1 μm

We report on the first demonstration of a diode-pumped Tm:LuScO3 laser. Efficient and broadly tunable continuous wave operation in the 1973 – 2141 nm region and femtosecond mode-locking through the use of an ionimplanted InGaAsSb quantum-well-based SESAM are realized. When mode-locked, near transform limited pulses as short as 170 fs were generated at 2093 nm with an average output power of 113 mW and a pulse repetition frequency of 115.2 MHz. Tunable picosecond pulse generation was demonstrated in the 2074 – 2104 nm spectral range.

Citation

Stevenson , N K , Brown , C T A , Hopkins , J -M , Dawson , M D , Kraenkel , C & Lagatsky , A A 2018 , ' Diode-pumped femtosecond Tm 3+ -doped LuScO 3 laser near 2.1 μm ' , Optics Letters , vol. 43 , no. 6 , pp. 1287-1290 . https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.43.001287

Publication

Optics Letters

Status

Peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.43.001287

ISSN

0146-9592

Type

Journal article

Rights

© 2018 Optical Society of America. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.43.001287

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University of St Andrews Research

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17074