Continuously tunable Yb:KYW femtosecond oscillator based on a tunable highly dispersive semiconductor mirror

The optimized nonuniform growth process was used to achieve spatially dependent reflectivity and dispersions characteristics in a highly dispersive semiconductor mirror. The mirror, together with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM), was used to demonstrate a tunable femtosecond Yb:KYW oscillator. In the passive modelocking regime the laser could be continuously tuned over 3.5 nm spectral band around 1032 nm with high resolution, maintaining the average output power above 140 mW.