The performance of ultrafast semiconductor disk lasers has rapidly advanced in recent
decades. The strong interest from industry for inexpensive, compact, and reliable ultrafast …

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 …

This graduate-level textbook starts with Maxwell's equations. If the reader finds this
reasonable, this book should be helpful. Focusing on ultrafast solid-state laser oscillators …

We demonstrate a power-scalable Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb: YAG thin-disk oscillator. It
delivers 200 fs pulses at an average power of 17 W and a repetition rate of 40 MHz. At an …

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 …

A mode-locked thin-disk laser based on Yb: CALGO is demonstrated for the first time. At an
average output power of 28 W we obtained pulses with a duration of 300 fs and a pulse …

We report on spectroscopic investigations of the mixed sesquioxide laser materials Yb:
LuScO 3, Yb: YScO 3, and Yb:(Lu, Y, Sc) 2 O 3 as well as mode-locked thin disk laser …

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 …