High-efficiency 100-W Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:YAG thin-disk oscillator

Hongshan Chen; Lisong Yan; Heyan Liu; Jingjie Hao; Tingting Yang; Hongyu Liu; Jin Zhang; Quanming Li; Hailin Wang; Guangzhi Zhu; Xiao Zhu; Hongwen Xuan; Qing Wang; Jinwei Zhang

doi:10.3389/fphy.2023.1191010

High-efficiency 100-W Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:YAG thin-disk oscillator

Hongshan Chen, Lisong Yan, Heyan Liu, Jingjie Hao, Tingting Yang, Hongyu Liu, Jin Zhang, Quanming Li, Hailin Wang, Guangzhi Zhu, Xiao Zhu, Hongwen Xuan^*, Qing Wang, Jinwei Zhang^*

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School of Optics and Photonics

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We demonstrate a Kerr-lens mode-locked femtosecond Yb:YAG thin-disk oscillator and investigate the approach to increase the optical-to-optical efficiency based on the scheme of direct multiple passes of the laser beam through the thin-disk medium. With twelve passes through the thin disk, 266-fs pulses were delivered from the oscillator with an average power of 105.6 W at a repetition rate of 20 MHz. The corresponding optical-to-optical efficiency is 31.1%, which is, to the best of our knowledge, the highest efficiency of any mode-locked thin-disk oscillator with pulse duration below 300 fs. This demonstration paves the way to even more efficient mode-locked femtosecond thin-disk oscillators, and provides an excellent laser source for the applications such as non-linear frequency conversion and high-precision industrial processing.

Original language	English
Article number	1191010
Journal	Frontiers in Physics
Volume	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2023.1191010
Publication status	Published - 2023

Keywords

high efficiency
high power
multi-pass
thin disk
ultrashort pulses

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