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Femtosecond Yb:YCOB laser pumped by narrow-stripe laser diode and passivelymodelocked using ion implanted saturable-absorber mirror

G.J. Valentine, Alan J. Kemp, D.J.L. Birkin, D. Burns, F. Balembois, Patrick Georges, H. Bernas, A. Aron, G. Aka, W. Sibbett,

Electronics Letters · 2000 · 33 citations · 4 references

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The authors present, what they believe to be, the first femtosecond Yb:YCOB laser, pumped by a low-power, narrow-stripe laser diode. To facilitate modelocking, high-energy oxygen ion implantation of the saturable absorber is employed. 210 fs pulse generation at 16 mW average output power for 140 mW incident pump power is reported.

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