new material exhibits particularly broad absorption and emission bandwidths (6 and 60 nm,
respectively) and hence is of particular interest for diode-pumped femtosecond and tunable
laser sources. Efficient operation from diode pumping (1.4 W of cw laser power obtained
with 3.6 W of diode pump power and as much as 3.4 W of peak power from high-power
quasi-cw pumping) together with smooth tunability (over 50 nm FWHM) is reported. For the …