A. Yu. Chamorovskiy, A. V. Marakulin, T. Leinonen, A. S. Kurkov, O. G. Okhotnikov, “Semiconductor disk laser-pumped subpicosecond holmium fibre laser”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 2012, Volume 42, Number 1,Pages <nobr>12

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Lasers

Semiconductor disk laser-pumped subpicosecond holmium fibre laser

A. Yu. Chamorovskiy^a, A. V. Marakulin^b, T. Leinonen^a, A. S. Kurkov^c, O. G. Okhotnikov^a

^a Optoelectronics Research Center, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
^b Russian Federal Nuclear Center E. I. Zababakhin All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics
^c Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: The first passively mode-locked holmium fibre laser has been demonstrated, with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) as a mode locker. Semiconductor disk lasers have been used for the first time to pump holmium fibre lasers. We obtained 830-fs pulses at a repetition rate of 34 MHz with an average output power of 6.6 mW.

Keywords: fibre lasers, holmium-doped optical fibre, semiconductor saturable absorber mirror, semiconductor disk laser, short pulse generation.

PACS: 42.55.Wd, 42.55.Px, 42.60.Fc

Received: 13.09.2011