GaSb-based SESAM mode-locked Tm: YAG ceramic laser at 2 μm

Alexander Gluth; Yicheng Wang; Valentin Petrov; Jonna Paajaste; Soile Suomalainen; Antti Härkönen; Mircea Guina; Günter Steinmeyer; Xavier Mateos; Stefano Veronesi; Mauro Tonelli; Jiang Li; Yubai Pan; Jingkun Guo; Uwe Griebner

doi:10.1364/OE.23.001361

GaSb-based SESAM mode-locked Tm: YAG ceramic laser at 2 μm

Alexander Gluth, Yicheng Wang, Valentin Petrov, Jonna Paajaste, Soile Suomalainen, Antti Härkönen, Mircea Guina, Günter Steinmeyer, Xavier Mateos, Stefano Veronesi, Mauro Tonelli, Jiang Li, Yubai Pan, Jingkun Guo, Uwe Griebner

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Tunable and mode-locked laser operation near 2 μm based on different Tm-doped YAG ceramics, 4 at.% and 10 at.%, is demonstrated. Several designs of GaSb-based surface-quantum-well SESAMs are characterized and studied as saturable absorbers for mode-locking. Best mode-locking performance was achieved using an antireflection-coated near-surface quantum-well SESAM, resulting in a pulse duration of ∼3 ps and ∼150 mW average output power at 89 MHz. All mode-locked Tm:YAG ceramic lasers operated at 2012 nm, with over 133 nm demonstrated tuning for continuous-wave operation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1361-1369
Number of pages	9
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	23
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.23.001361
Publication status	Published - 26 Jan 2015
Publication type	A2 Review article in a scientific journal

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