Advances of Yb: CALGO laser crystals

H Wang, J Pan, Y Meng, Q Liu, Y Shen - Crystals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Yb: CaGdAlO4, or Yb: CALGO, a new laser crystal, has been attracting increasing attention
recently in a myriad of laser technologies. This crystal features salient thermal, spectroscopic …

Diode-pumped 45 fs Yb: CALGO laser oscillator with 1.7 MW of peak power

S Manjooran, A Major - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A high-power sub-50 fs diode-pumped Yb: CALGO laser oscillator is demonstrated. The
peak power achieved for 45 fs pulses directly from the oscillator was 1.7 MW. To the best of …

Wavelength-tunable Hermite–Gaussian modes and an orbital-angular-momentum-tunable vortex beam in a dual-off-axis pumped Yb: CALGO laser

Y Shen, Y Meng, X Fu, M Gong - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A dual-off-axis pum** scheme is presented to generate wavelength-tunable high-order
Hermite–Gaussian (HG) modes in Yb: CaGdAlO_4 lasers. The mode and wavelength can …

A discretely tunable dual-wavelength multi-watt Yb: CALGO laser

S Manjooran, P Loiko, A Major - Applied Physics B, 2018 - Springer
A discretely tunable dual-wavelength diode-pumped Yb: CALGO laser using a single
birefringent filter (BRF) plate which covered a wavelength range of approximately 1020 …

[HTML][HTML] Tm, Ho: Ca (Gd, Lu) AlO4 crystals: Crystal growth, structure refinement and Judd-Ofelt analysis

Z Pan, P Loiko, S Slimi, H Yuan, Y Wang, Y Zhao… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract “Mixed” calcium rare-earth aluminate laser host crystals Ca (Gd, Lu) AlO 4
(CALGLO) with up to 10.8 at.% Lu codoped with Tm 3+ and Ho 3+ ions are grown by the …

Yb:GdScO3 crystal for efficient ultrashort pulse lasers

Y Zhang, S Li, X Du, J Guo, Q Gong, S Tao, P Zhang… - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first demonstration of thermal, optical, and
laser properties of Yb: GdScO_3 for potentially efficient ultrashort pulse lasers. The …

Diode-pumped power scalable Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb: CYA laser

W Tian, Y Peng, Z Zhang, Z Yu, J Zhu, X Xu… - Photonics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Stable 68 fs pulses with the average power of 1.5 W is directly generated from a multimode
diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb: CYA laser by separating the gain medium and …

Growth and Characterization of Yb: CALYGLO Crystal for Ultrashort Pulse Laser Applications

Z Wang, J Liu, P Chen, P Liu, J Ma, X Xu, Y Wei… - Crystals, 2024 - mdpi.com
Yb: CALYGLO crystals with a dopant concentration of 5 at.% were successfully grown using
the Czochralski method. The crystal samples were extensively studied to analyze their …

Growth, spectroscopy and SESAM mode-locking of a “mixed” Yb:Ca(Gd,Y)AlO4 disordered crystal

P Zhang, W Wu, ZL Lin, ZQ Li, P Loiko, S Normani… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We present the growth, spectroscopy, continuous-wave (CW) and passively mode-locked
(ML) operation of a novel “mixed” tetragonal calcium rare-earth aluminate crystal, Yb^ 3+ …

[HTML][HTML] Broadly tunable optical vortex beam in a diode-pumped Yb: CALGO laser

L Zhao, Y Yuan, L Tong, F Cai, W Zhang… - Optics & Laser …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, the direct generation of vortex beams in a diode-pumped Yb: CALGO laser has
been realized for the first time. The wavelength of the output vortex beam was broadly …