Milestones
2019
New average power world record: 350-W average output power, 940-fs pulse duration, 8.88-MHz pulse repetition rate, pulse energy 39-µJ, peak power 37 MW
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General overview article in Photonics Sectra, Oct. 2019
external page"Advances in Ultrafast Multi-100-W Average-Power Thin-Disk Lasers"
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Invited plenary talk with online viewgraphs and talk, OPIC 2019
https://ulp.ethz.ch/videos/opic-2019--plenary-talk.html
2018
NEW CONCEPT: Self-phase modulation cancelation in a high-power SESAM modelocked TDL 780 fs, 19 µJ, 210 W average output power from a Yb:YAG TDL operated in air
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Discovery of gas-lens effect in high-average-power TDLs
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2017
Frequency-doubling nonlinear-mirror (NLM) mode locked Yb:YAG TDL 323 fs, 21 W
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Peak-power scaling with Yb:LuO: 534 fs, 90-W average power, 10-MW peak power, 14.8-MHz pulse repetition rate, 6.1 µJ and 616 fs, 82-W average power, 12-MW peak power, 9.5-MHz pulse repetition rate, 8.6 µJ
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Yb:GGG a new promising material for high-power TDL
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2015
First demonstration of HHG at MHz repetition rate, driven by the compressed output of a high-power thin-disk laser.
external page"Compact extreme ultraviolet source at megahertz pulse repetition rate with a low-noise ultrafast thin-disk laser oscillator"
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2014
New milestone result for pulse energy from an ultrafast laser oscillator (i.e. without additional amplification): 80 µJ pulse energy, 3 MHz pulse repetition rate, 242 W average output power, 1 ps pulse duration, 66 MW peak power from a SESAM modelocked Yb:YAG thin disk laser in the soliton modelocking regime.
external page"Ultrafast thin-disk laser with 80 μJ pulse energy and 242 W of average power"
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Pulse compression of a modelocked thin disk laser at the 100 W level with Kagome-type hollow-core PCF
external page"Efficient spectral broadening in the 100-W average power regime using gas-filled kagome HC-PCF and pulse compression"
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2013
62 fs from a Yb:CALGO thin disk laser
external page"62-fs Pulses from a SESAM Modelocked Yb:CALGO Thin Disk Laser"
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First stabilized frequency comb from an Yb:CALGO thin disk laser
external page"Phase-stabilization of the carrier-envelope-offset frequency of a SESAM modelocked thin disk laser"
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2012
First sub-100 fs pulses from a SESAM modelocked Yb:LuScO3 thin disk laser
external page"Sub-100 fs pulses from a SESAM-modelocked thin-disk laser"
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First measurement of the carrier-envelope-offset frequency of an ultrafast thin disk laser
external page"Self-referenceable frequency comb from an ultrafast thin disk laser"
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SESAM-modelocked Yb:YAG thin disk laser delivering an output power of 275 W and a pulse energy of 16.9 µJ
external page"275 W average output power from a femtosecond thin disk oscillator operated in a vacuum environment"
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2011
Optimized SESAM designs for high-power thin disk laser oscillators
external page"SESAMs for high-power oscillators: design guidelines and damage thresholds"
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2010
First time more than 100 W average power from an ultrafast laser oscillator directly
external page"Femtosecond thin-disk laser with 141 W of average power"
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2008
First time more than 10 µJ pulse energy from an ultrafast laser oscillator directly, without further pulse amplification:
external page"Femtosecond thin disk laser oscillator with pulse energy beyond the 10-microjoule level"
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2006
First time more than 1 µJ pulse energy from an ultrafast laser oscillator directlly, without further pulse amplification:
external page"Pulse energy scaling to5μJfrom a femtosecond thin disk laser"
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2000
First SESAM modelocked thin disk laser:
external page"16.2-W average power from a diode-pumped femtosecond Yb:YAG thin disk laser"
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