Ultrafast lasers continue to be at the forefront of many scientific breakthroughs and
technological achievements and progress in the performance of these systems continue to …

Sesquioxides are outstanding host materials for rare-earth doped laser gain media.
Unfortunately, their very high melting points make it challenging for them to be fabricated in …

Sesquioxides combine excellent thermomechanical properties, comparably low phonon
energies and a strong crystal field, making them ideally suited for broad band emitting high …

Sesquioxides such as Y2O3 and Sc2O3 are important optical materials, but the fabrication of
their transparent ceramics remains a challenge due to the ultra-high melting point of over …

Geometric scaling of a Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb: YAG thin-disk oscillator yields
femtosecond pulses with an average output power of 270 W. The scaled system delivers …

We have recently demonstrated a simple power scaling procedure for Kerr-lens mode-
locked thin-disk oscillators. Here we report on the extension of this scheme to a broadband …

Cubic rare-earth sesquioxide crystals are strongly demanded host materials for high power
lasers, but due to their high melting points investigations on their thermodynamics and the …

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 …

We present a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) mode-locked thin disk
laser (TDL) based on Yb: CaGdAlO_4 (Yb: CALGO) generating 62 fs pulses, which is the …

We report on the spectroscopic and laser characterization of Yb-doped (Sc x Y 1-x) 2 O 3
ceramics with different Y 3+/Sc 3+ balance (x= 0, 0.273, 0.508 and 0.742) and~ 6 at.% Yb …