Multi-gigahertz mode-locked femtosecond Yb:KLuW waveguide lasers

Ji Eun Bae; Xavier Mateos; Magdalena Aguiló; Francesc Díaz; Javier García Ajates; Carolina Romero; Javier Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana; Fabian Rotermund

doi:10.1364/PRJ.471688

Photonics Research, Volume. 10, Issue 11, 2584(2022)

Multi-gigahertz mode-locked femtosecond Yb:KLuW waveguide lasers

Ji Eun Bae¹, Xavier Mateos², Magdalena Aguiló², Francesc Díaz², Javier García Ajates³, Carolina Romero³, Javier Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana³, and Fabian Rotermund^1、*

Author Affiliations

¹Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 34141 Daejeon, Republic of Korea

²Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Física i Cristal·lografia de Materials i Nanomaterials (FiCMA), 43007 Tarragona, Spain

³Grupo de Investigación en Aplicaciones del Láser y Fotónica, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain

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Paper Information

Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Jul. 26, 2022

Accepted: Sep. 6, 2022

Published Online: Oct. 28, 2022

The Author Email: Fabian Rotermund (rotermund@kaist.ac.kr)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.471688

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