Druon F, Chénais S, Balembois F, Georges P, Gaumé R, Viana B
Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, Ecole Supérieure d'Optique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 8501 du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Universitaire d'Orsay, Bâtiment 503, 91403 Orsay, France.
Opt Lett. 2005 Apr 15;30(8):857-9. doi: 10.1364/ol.30.000857.
We report cw and femtosecond laser operations under diode pumping of a diffusion-bonding heterocomposite Yb-doped crystal: Yb3+:SrY4(SiO4)3O parallel Y2Al5O12(YAG paralell SYS:Yb). To show the advantages of this heterocomposite crystal over classical Yb:SYS crystal, we first investigate the high-power cw regime. A cw power of 4.3 W is demonstrated. The femtosecond regime is also investigated, and 1-W-average-power, 130-fs pulses at 1070 nm are produced, which represents, to our knowledge, the first demonstration of an Yb-doped heterocomposite mode-locked laser.
