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Yb-doped mixed sesquioxides for ultrashort pulse generation in the thin disk laser setup

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We report on spectroscopic investigations of the mixed sesquioxide laser materials Yb:LuScO3, Yb:YScO3, and Yb:(Lu,Y,Sc)2O3 as well as mode-locked thin disk laser experiments with Yb:LuScO3 and Yb:(Lu,Y,Sc)2O3. The disordered crystal structures of these materials result in significantly broader emission spectra than for the pure sesquioxides Yb:Sc2O3, Yb:Y2O3, and Yb:Lu2O3 providing a high potential for ultrashort pulse generation. In SESAM mode-locked thin disk laser experiments, pulse durations of around 100 fs could be obtained exploiting >70 % of the gain bandwidth which is to the best of our knowledge the optimum obtained so far for the mode-locked lasers in this setup.

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This work has been supported by the excellence cluster ‘The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging—Structure, Dynamics and Control of Matter at the Atomic Scale’ of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The authors also acknowledge the Joachim Herz Stiftung for financial support.

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  1. Institute of Laser-Physics, University of Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761, Hamburg, Germany

    Kolja Beil, Christian Kränkel & Günter Huber

  2. Department of Physics, Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland

    Clara J. Saraceno, Cinia Schriber, Florian Emaury, Matthias Golling & Ursula Keller

  3. Department of Physics, University of Neuchâtel, 2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    Thomas Südmeyer

  4. The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chausee 149, 22761, Hamburg, Germany

    Christian Kränkel & Günter Huber

  5. Department of Physics, Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland

    Oliver H. Heckl & Cyrill R. E. Baer

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Beil, K., Saraceno, C.J., Schriber, C. et al. Yb-doped mixed sesquioxides for ultrashort pulse generation in the thin disk laser setup. Appl. Phys. B 113, 13–18 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-013-5433-2

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