A Decade of Sub‐100‐fs Thin‐Disk Laser Oscillators

J Drs, J Fischer, N Modsching, F Labaye… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thin‐disk lasers (TDLs) are best known for their high‐power continuous‐wave industrial
applications. Nonetheless, the thin‐disk geometry is also highly attractive for ultrafast laser …

Moving towards high-power thin-disk lasers in the 2 µm wavelength range

S Tomilov, M Hoffmann, Y Wang… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Thin-disk lasers (TDLs) have made spectacular progress in the last decades both in
continuous-wave (CW) and ultrafast operation. Nowadays, single thin-disk oscillators with> …

Cutting-edge high-power ultrafast thin disk oscillators

CJ Saraceno, C Schriber, F Emaury, OH Heckl… - Applied Sciences, 2013 - mdpi.com
A growing number of applications in science and industry are currently pushing the
development of ultrafast laser technologies that enable high average powers. SESAM …

High-power ultrafast thin disk laser oscillators and their potential for sub-100-femtosecond pulse generation

T Südmeyer, C Kränkel, CRE Baer, OH Heckl… - Applied Physics B, 2009 - Springer
Ultrafast thin disk laser oscillators achieve the highest average output powers and pulse
energies of any mode-locked laser oscillator technology. The thin disk concept avoids …

Kerr-lens mode-locked 2-μm thin-disk lasers

J Zhang, KF Mak, O Pronin - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thin-disk technology uniquely enables the simultaneous scaling of both average and peak
powers, while maintaining an excellent beam profile. It has been widely adopted in the 1-μm …

Efficient 100-MW, 100-W, 50-fs-class Yb: YAG thin-disk laser oscillator

J Fischer, J Drs, N Modsching, F Labaye, VJ Wittwer… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate an efficient 102-MW peak power, 103-W average power, Kerr-lens mode-
locked thin-disk laser (TDL) oscillator generating 52-fs pulses at 17.1-MHz repetition rate …

Toward millijoule-level high-power ultrafast thin-disk oscillators

CJ Saraceno, F Emaury, C Schriber… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
SESAM modelocked thin-disk lasers have recently reached new frontiers and remain the
leading technology in terms of average power and pulse energy, setting new performance …

Mode-locked thin-disk lasers and their potential application for high-power terahertz generation

CJ Saraceno - Journal of Optics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The progress achieved in the last few decades in the performance of ultrafast laser systems
with high average power has been tremendous, and continues to provide momentum to new …

[HTML][HTML] Distributed Kerr lens mode-locked Yb: YAG thin-disk oscillator

J Zhang, M Pӧtzlberger, Q Wang, J Brons… - Ultrafast …, 2022 - spj.science.org
Ultrafast laser oscillators are indispensable tools for diverse applications in scientific
research and industry. When the phases of the longitudinal laser cavity modes are locked …

Frontiers in passively mode-locked high-power thin disk laser oscillators

CRE Baer, OH Heckl, CJ Saraceno, C Schriber… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
Semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) mode-locked thin disk lasers define the
state-of-the-art performance for high average power and high pulse energy femtosecond …