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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2001),
  • paper CWF2

High power Yb:KGW and Yb:KYW thin disk laser operation

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Abstract

The Yb3+-doped potassium tungstates KY(WO4)2 (KYW) and KGd(WO4)2 (KGW) are for several reasons of great interest for diode- pumped solid state lasers. Compared with Yb:YAG, they have a smaller quantum defect of only ~4% and higher absorption and emission cross sections. Furthermore Yb:KGW and Yb:KYW have a broad emission bandwidth, comparable to that of Yb:glass, which allows for the generation and amplification of ultrashort pulses. With a mode-locked Yb:KGW rod laser, end-pumped by two high brightness diodes, a pulse duration of 176 fs at 1.1 W of average output power has already been demonstrated.3 For these reasons YbrKYW and Yb:KGW are very promising candidates both for high power cw and for mode-locked operation in a thin disk laser setup, which has already demonstrated its ability to produce high cw output powers at high efficiencies up to the kW range1 and fundamental mode operation up to 97 W2 using Yb:YAG. Moreover, high power mode-locked operation of an Yb:YAG thin disk laser has been obtained with 16.2 W of average output power.4

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