Abstract

Passive cw mode locking of an ytterbium-doped fluoride phosphate glass laser is demonstrated, for what we believe to be the first time, based solely on the Kerr effect in the active medium in a resonator with dispersion compensation. Nearly bandwidth-limited pulses as short as 160 fs are generated at $\approx 1040$ nm. We obtain average output powers as high as 250 mW at 170-MHz repetition rate with absorbed pump power as low as 1.2 W.

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Efficient and tunable diode-pumped femtosecond Yb:glass lasers

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