Paper
3 March 2011 LD-pumped soliton and non-soliton mode-locked operations of Yb:(Gd1-xYx)2SiO5 (x=0.5) laser
Author Affiliations +
Abstract
Diode-pumped soliton and non-soliton mode-locked Yb:(Gd1-xYx) 2SiO5 (x=0.5) lasers have been demonstrated together for the first time to the author's knowledge. For the non-soliton mode locking, output power could achieve ~1.2 W, and pulse width was about 20ps. For the soliton mode-locked operation, the pulse width was 1.4ps at the wavelength of 1056nm and 375fs at the wavelength of 1042nm, with a pair of SF10 prisms as the negative dispersion elements. The repetition rate was 48 MHz. The critical pulse energy in the soliton-mode locked operation against the Q-switched mode locking was much lower than the value in non-soliton mode-locked operation.
© (2011) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Jinping He, Xiaoyan Liang, Jinfeng Li, Lihe Zheng, Liangbi Su, Jun Xu, and Zhizhan Xu "LD-pumped soliton and non-soliton mode-locked operations of Yb:(Gd1-xYx)2SiO5 (x=0.5) laser", Proc. SPIE 7912, Solid State Lasers XX: Technology and Devices, 791225 (3 March 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.874371
Advertisement
Advertisement
RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS
Get copyright permission  Get copyright permission on Copyright Marketplace
KEYWORDS
Mode locking

Solitons

Crystals

Modulation

Dispersion

Prisms

Pulsed laser operation

RELATED CONTENT

New concepts for compact diode-pumped femtosecond lasers
Proceedings of SPIE (August 18 1997)
Gigabit Optical Pulse Generations In Integrated Lasers
Proceedings of SPIE (April 23 1982)
Soliton crystal fiber laser
Proceedings of SPIE (April 16 2008)
Kerr lens mode-locked operation of a Yb:KYW laser
Proceedings of SPIE (May 04 1999)

Back to Top