OSA Optics and Photonics News

U. Keller, Plenary Talk Wednesday 17. May 2017

"Ultrafast solid-state lasers: a success story with no end in sight"

CLEO 2017, San Jose, California, USA, May 14-19, 2017

This talk will review and give an outlook on ultrafast solid-state lasers based on SESAMs for passive modelocking. The thin disk laser geometry for efficient heat removal is currently the most successful approach for power scaling of diode-pumped ion-doped solid-state and semiconductor lasers. Different gain materials, different performance parameters and different modelocking dynamics require different SESAM parameters. Novel optically pumped semiconductor disk lasers with fully integrated gain and absorber layers (i.e. MIXSEL) give full wavelength flexibility, simple linear cavities and can easily be operated in a dual comb mode.  These lasers enable many application ranging from precision micromachining, frequency metrology and nonlinear microscopy.

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Link 1: http://www.ulp.ethz.ch/research/frequency-combs.html
Link 2: http://www.ulp.ethz.ch/research/vecsel-mixsel.html