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Femtosecond pulse generation with a diode-pumped Yb3+:YVO4 laser
V E Kisel1, A E Troshin, V G Shcherbitsky
1International Laser Center, Belarus National Technical University, 65 F. Scoriny Avenue, Building 17, Minsk, Belarus. vekisel@ilc.by
Optics Letters
|June 10, 2005
Abstract:
A diode-pumped Yb:YVO4 laser has been passively mode locked for the first time, to our knowledge. 120 fs pulses with an average output power of 300 mW and a peak power as high as 14.5 kW are obtained by use of a semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror for passive mode locking. The optical spectrum has a 10 nm bandwidth (full width at half-maximum) and is centered at 1021 nm.

