Development of diode-pumped high average power continuous-wave and ultrashort pulse Yb:KGW lasers for nonlinear microscopy

Arkady Major; Richard Cisek; Virginijus Barzda

doi:10.1117/12.641414

28 February 2006 Development of diode-pumped high average power continuous-wave and ultrashort pulse Yb:KGW lasers for nonlinear microscopy

Arkady Major, Richard Cisek, Virginijus Barzda

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Proceedings Volume 6108, Commercial and Biomedical Applications of Ultrafast Lasers VI; 61080Y (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.641414
Event: Lasers and Applications in Science and Engineering, 2006, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

We report on the development of diode-pumped high power continuous-wave (CW) and ultrashort pulse Yb:KGW lasers for applications in nonlinear multimodal microscopy. In the CW regime we generated 5W of average output power from a simple three-mirror cavity, with 22% of optical-to-optical conversion efficiency. The CW laser was used as a platform for development of a high power mode-locked oscillator. We achieved 2.3W of average output power in the mode-locked regime with ~210 fs duration pulses centered around 1047 nm at a repetition rate of 97 MHz. This corresponds to 24 nJ of energy per pulse and 114 kW of peak power. The demonstrated laser will be used in second- and third-harmonic generation microscopy of biological samples.

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Arkady Major, Richard Cisek, and Virginijus Barzda "Development of diode-pumped high average power continuous-wave and ultrashort pulse Yb:KGW lasers for nonlinear microscopy", Proc. SPIE 6108, Commercial and Biomedical Applications of Ultrafast Lasers VI, 61080Y (28 February 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.641414

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