Femtosecond Cr:LiSAF and Cr:LiCAF lasers pumped by tapered diode lasers

Demirbas, Umit; Schmalz, Michael; Sumpf, Bernd; Götz, Erbert; Petrich, Gale S.; Kolodziejski, Leslie A.; Fujimoto, James G.; Kärtner, Franz X.; Leitenstorfer, Alfred

Femtosecond Cr:LiSAF and Cr:LiCAF lasers pumped by tapered diode lasers

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2011

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Demirbas, Umit

Schmalz, Michael

Sumpf, Bernd

Götz, Erbert

Petrich, Gale S.

Kolodziejski, Leslie A.

Fujimoto, James G.

Kärtner, Franz X.

Leitenstorfer, Alfred

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Optics Express. 2011, 19(21), pp. 20444-20461. eISSN 1094-4087. Available under: doi: 10.1364/OE.19.020444

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We report compact, low-cost and efficient Cr:Colquiriite lasers that are pumped by high brightness tapered laser diodes. The tapered laser diodes provided 1 to 1.2 W of output power around 675 nm, at an electrical-to-optical conversion efficiency of about 30%. Using a single tapered diode laser as the pump source, we have demonstrated output powers of 500 mW and 410 mW together with slope efficiencies of 47% and 41% from continuous wave (cw) Cr:LiSAF and Cr:LiCAF lasers, respectively. In cw mode-locked operation, sub-100-fs pulse trains with average power between 200 mW and 250 mW were obtained at repetition rates around 100 MHz. Upon pumping the Cr:Colquiriite lasers with two tapered laser diodes (one from each side of the crystal), we have observed scaling of cw powers to 850 mW in Cr:LiSAF and to 650 mW in Cr:LiCAF. From the double side pumped Cr:LiCAF laser, we have also obtained ~220 fs long pulses with 5.4 nJ of pulse energy at 77 MHz repetition rate. These are the highest energy levels reported from Cr:Colquiriite so far at these repetition rates. Our findings indicate that tapered diodes in the red spectral region are likely to become the standard pump source for Cr:Colquiriite lasers in the near future. Moreover, the simplified pumping scheme might facilitate efficient commercialization of Cr:Colquiriite systems, bearing the potential to significantly boost applications of cw and femtosecond lasers in this spectral region (750-1000 nm).

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DEMIRBAS, Umit, Michael SCHMALZ, Bernd SUMPF, Erbert GÖTZ, Gale S. PETRICH, Leslie A. KOLODZIEJSKI, James G. FUJIMOTO, Franz X. KÄRTNER, Alfred LEITENSTORFER, 2011. Femtosecond Cr:LiSAF and Cr:LiCAF lasers pumped by tapered diode lasers. In: Optics Express. 2011, 19(21), pp. 20444-20461. eISSN 1094-4087. Available under: doi: 10.1364/OE.19.020444

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@article{Demirbas2011-10-10Femto-19189,
  year={2011},
  doi={10.1364/OE.19.020444},
  title={Femtosecond Cr:LiSAF and Cr:LiCAF lasers pumped by tapered diode lasers},
  number={21},
  volume={19},
  journal={Optics Express},
  pages={20444--20461},
  author={Demirbas, Umit and Schmalz, Michael and Sumpf, Bernd and Götz, Erbert and Petrich, Gale S. and Kolodziejski, Leslie A. and Fujimoto, James G. and Kärtner, Franz X. and Leitenstorfer, Alfred}
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