Abstract
We investigated the influence of the spatial pump beam quality on the generation of ultra-short pulses in high-brightness Yb:fiber laser-pumped pure Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:CaF2 oscillators. We report pulse duration as short as 48 fs with an average output power of 2.7 W.
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