Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jun 22, 2026

10:17
20 mJ, 1 ps Yb:YAG Thin-disk Regenerative Amplifier
Published on: July 12, 2017
Optical bistability in the operation of a continuous-wave diode-pumped Yb:LuVO(4) laser
Optics Express
|June 17, 2009
Abstract:
We report on sizable optical bistability in the operation of a continuous-wave diode-pumped Yb:LuVO(4) laser, as a result of the resonant reabsorption losses in the laser crystal which increase with the temperature. Significant intensity fluctuations have been observed in a small operational region near the critical point.

