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    35 W continuous-wave Ho:YAG single-crystal fiber laser
    (Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020) Zhao, Yongguang; Wang, Li; Chen, Weidong; Wang, Jianlei; Song, Qingsong; Xu, Xiaodong; Liu, Ying; Shen, Deyuan; Xu, Jun; Mateos, Xavier; Loiko, Pavel; Wang, Zhengping; Xu, Xinguang; Griebner, Uwe; Petrov, Valentin
    We report on a high-power Ho:YAG single-crystal fiber (SCF) laser inband pumped by a high-brightness Tm-fiber laser at 1908 nm. The Ho:YAG SCF grown by the micro-pulling-down technique exhibits a propagation loss of at. A continuous-wave output power of 35.2 W is achieved with a slope efficiency of 42.7%, which is to the best of our knowledge the highest power ever reported from an SCF-based laser in the 2 spectral range. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press in association with Chinese Laser Press.
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    SESAM mode-locked Tm:Y2O3 ceramic laser
    (Washington, DC : Soc., 2022) Zhang, Ning; Liu, Shande; Wang, Zhanxin; Liu, Jian; Xu, Xiaodong; Xu, Jun; Wang, Jun; Liu, Peng; Ma, Jie; Shen, Deyuan; Tang, Dingyuan; Lin, Hui; Zhang, Jian; Chen, Weidong; Zhao, Yongguang; Griebner, Uwe; Petrov, Valentin
    We demonstrate a widely tunable and passively mode-locked Tm:Y2O3 ceramic laser in-band pumped by a 1627-nm Raman fiber laser. A tuning range of 318 nm, from 1833 to 2151 nm, is obtained in the continuous-wave regime. The SESAM mode-locked laser produces Fourier-transform-limited pulses as short as 75 fs at ∼ 2.06 µm with an average output power of 0.26 W at 86.3 MHz. For longer pulse durations of 178 fs, an average power of 0.59 W is achieved with a laser efficiency of 29%. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first mode-locked Tm:Y2O3 laser in the femtosecond regime. The spectroscopic properties and laser performance confirm that Tm:Y2O3 transparent ceramics are a promising gain material for ultrafast lasers at 2 µm.
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    Semiconductor saturable absorber mirror mode-locked Yb:YAP laser
    (Washington, DC : Soc., 2022) Lin, Zhang-Lang; Xue, Wen-Ze; Zeng, Huang-Jun; Zhang, Ge; Zhao, Yongguang; Xu, Xiaodong; Xu, Jun; Loiko, Pavel; Mateos, Xavier; Lin, Haifeng; Petrov, Valentin; Wang, Li; Chen, Weidong
    We report on sub-30 fs pulse generation from a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror mode-locked Yb:YAP laser. Pumping by a spatially single-mode Yb fiber laser at 979 nm, soliton pulses as short as 29 fs were generated at 1091 nm with an average output power of 156 mW and a pulse repetition rate of 85.1 MHz. The maximum output power of the mode-locked Yb:YAP laser amounted to 320 mW for slightly longer pulses (32 fs) at an incident pump power of 1.52 W, corresponding to a peak power of 103 kW and an optical efficiency of 20.5%. To the best of our knowledge, this result represents the shortest pulses ever achieved from any solid-state Yb laser mode-locked by a slow, i.e., physical saturable absorber.