Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 50, Issue 8, 0850207(2021)

Review of High-power Kerr-lens Mode-locked Yb-doped All-solid-state Lasers (Invited)

Wenlong TIAN1... Rui XU1, Jiangfeng ZHU1,* and Zhiyi WEI2,* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an7007, China
  • 2Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100190, China
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    Emission spectral bandwidth and thermal conductivity of different Yb-doped gain medium
    Geometry of gain medium
    Experimental setup of the single-mode fiber-laser-pumped Kerr-lens-mode-locked Yb∶CYA laser[47]
    High repetition rate Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:KGW laser[48]
    Multimode LD pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb∶CYA laser[52]
    High-power Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb∶CYA laser[31]
    Summary of kerr-lens mode-locked Yb all-solid-state lasers with high average power
    Design of the hundred watts KLM laser based on dual-end high-power pumping and cryogenic cooling
    Design of the MHz, 10-µJ KLM laser based on the cavity dumping and multi-pass cavity
    Design of the LD pumped GHz KLM Yb-doped all-solid-state laser
    • Table 1. Comparison of the different types of high-power Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb-doped bulk lasers

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      Table 1. Comparison of the different types of high-power Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb-doped bulk lasers

      TypeSESAMassistedFiber laser pumpedLDpumped dual-confocal cavity
      ProsSelf-starting

      Short pulse duration

      High optical-optical efficiency

      High average power

      Low cost

      Cons

      Output power is limited by the damage threshold of SESAM

      The home-made SESAM is not yet mature

      Pump laser is high in cost and low in power

      not self-starting

      Not self-starting
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    Wenlong TIAN, Rui XU, Jiangfeng ZHU, Zhiyi WEI. Review of High-power Kerr-lens Mode-locked Yb-doped All-solid-state Lasers (Invited)[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2021, 50(8): 0850207

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    Paper Information

    Category: Special Issue for Ultrafast Optics

    Received: May. 30, 2021

    Accepted: Jun. 30, 2021

    Published Online: Sep. 1, 2021

    The Author Email: ZHU Jiangfeng (jfzhu@xidian.edu.cn), WEI Zhiyi (zywei@iphy.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/gzxb20215008.0850207

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