《Femtosecond mode-locked Tm Glass Lasers》.pdfVIP

Femtosecond mode-locked Tm3+ and Tm3+-Ho3+ doped 2 µm glass lasers 1,* 1 2 3 2 3 4 F. Fusari , A. A. Lagatsky , G. Jose , S. Calvez , A. Jha , M.D. Dawson , J.A. Gupta 1 1 W. Sibbett , and C. T. A. Brown 1Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, J. F. Allen School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, Scotland, UK 2Institute for Materials Research, School of Process, Environment and Materials Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK 3Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde, Wolfson Centre, 106 Rottenrow, Glasgow, G4 0NW, UK 4Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, K1A 0R6, Canada *ff49@st-andrews.ac.uk Abstract: We report on the spectroscopic characterization, continuous- wave and continuous wave mode-locked laser performance of bulk Tm3+ :GPNG fluorogermanate and Tm3+-Ho3+:TZN tellurite glass lasers around 2 m. A slope efficiency of up to 50% and 190 mW of output power were achieved from the Tm3+:GPNG laser at 1944 nm during continuous wave operation. The Tm3+-Ho3+:TZN laser produced a 26% slope efficiency with a maximum output power of 74 mW at 2012 nm. The Tm3+ :GPNG produced near-transform-limited pulses of 410 fs duration centered at 1997 nm with up to 84 mW of av