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High-power SESAM Mode-locked Yb:KGW Laser with Different Group-velocity Dispersions

  • Park, Byeong-Jun (Department of Physics, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Song, Ji-Yeon (Department of Physics, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Lee, Seong-Yeon (Department of Physics, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Yee, Ki-Ju (Department of Physics, Chungnam National University)
  • Received : 2022.04.04
  • Accepted : 2022.06.25
  • Published : 2022.08.25
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Abstract

We report on a diode-laser-pumped mode-locked Yb:KGW laser system, which delivers ultrashort pulses down to 89 fs at a repetition rate of 63 MHz, with an average power of up to 5.6 W. A fiber-coupled diode laser at 981 nm, operated with a compact driver, is used to optically pump the gain crystal via an off-axis parabolic mirror. A semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror is used to initiate the pulsed operation. Laser characteristics such as the pulse duration, spectrum bandwidth, and output power are investigated by varying the intracavity dispersions via changing the number of bounces between negative-dispersive mirrors within the cavity. Short pulses with a duration of 89 fs, a center wavelength of 1,027 nm, and 3.6 W of output power are produced at a group-velocity dispersion (GVD) of -3,300 fs2. As the negative GVD increases, the pulse duration lengthens but the output power at the single-pulse condition can be enhanced, reaching 5.6 W at a GVD of -6,600 fs2. Because of pulse broadening at high negative GVDs, the highest peak intensity is achievable at a moderate GVD with our system.

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Research Fund of 2020, Chungnam National University.

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