Diode-pumped femtosecond Tm3+-doped LuScO3 laser near 2.1 μm
Abstract
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
ISSN
0146-9592Type
Journal article
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