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SPIE Gold Medal 2020
The International Society for Optics and Photonics, SPIE, awards the 2020 Gold Medal, the highest honour the society bestows, to Ursula Keller.
by Benjamin Willenberg
Record-high 350-W average output power from an ultrafast laser
We demonstrate a SESAM-modelocked thin-disk oscillator delivering 350‑W output power, which improves the previous long-standing record of 275 W obtained in 2012. Several competing effects prevented power scaling beyond 275 W until now.
by Benjamin Willenberg