A 54-fs diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:LuYSiO_(5) laser

We demonstrate a Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:Lu YSiO_(5)(Yb:LYSO)laser with the pulse duration of 54 fs,corresponding to a spectral bandwidth of 25 nm centered at 1062 nm.To the best of our knowledge,this is the shortest pulse duration obtained from Yb:LYSO laser.At the repetition rate of 378.3 MHz,an output power of 111.6 m W is obtained using an output coupler with 0.6%transmittance,which can maintain long-time stable mode-locking more than 13 h.

Diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti: sapphire laser with broad wavelength tunability

We report a direct blue-diode-pumped wavelength tunable Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti: sapphire laser.Central wavelength tunability as broad as 89 nm(736-825 nm) is achieved by adjusting the insertion of the prism.Pulses as short as 17 fs are generated at a central wavelength of 736 nm with an average output power of 31 mW.The maximum output power is 46.8 mW at a central wavelength of 797 nm with a pulse duration of 46 fs.

高重复频率高次谐波驱动源技术

超快驱动光源技术的不断进步激发了极紫外阿秒脉冲在原子分子的精密光谱学及超快动力学研究中的巨大潜力.本文回顾了高重复频率飞秒激光驱动高次谐波产生的发展历程,并以高重复频率极紫外光源的应用为切入点梳理了钛宝石激光系统、掺镱光纤激光系统以及掺镱全固态激光系统等驱动光源的参数特点、适用范围以及发展趋势等.最后,提出了用以驱动兆赫兹量级重复频率高次谐波产生的紧凑型全固态放大方案.

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

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 Kerr medium. The repetition rate is about 50 MHz, resulting in a single pulse energy of 30 n J and a peak power of 0.44 MW. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest single pulse energy ever produced from a mode-locked Yb:CYA oscillator. Our experimental results show that Yb:CYA crystal is an excellent candidate for multiwatt, sub-100 fs pulse generation in diode-pumped all-solid-state lasers. It is believed that the output power can be scalable to multi-W while the pulse duration is maintained with this simple method.

Sub-10-fs pulse generation from a blue laser-diode-pumped Ti:sapphire oscillator

Pulses as short as 8.1 fs were generated from a blue laser-diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:sapphire oscillator, with an average power of 27 m W and a repetition rate of 120.6 MHz. The full width at half-maximum exceeds 146 nm, benefitting from the dispersion management by a combination of a low-dispersion fused silica prism pair and a series of double-chirped mirrors. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time to generate sub-10-fs pulses from a laser diode directly pumped Ti:sapphire oscillator.

Harmonically pump a femtosecond optical parametric oscillator to 1.13 GHz by a femtosecond 515 nm laser

We demonstrate a harmonically pumped femtosecond optical parametric oscillator(OPO)laser using a frequency-doubled mode-locked Yb:KGW laser at a repetition rate of 75.5 MHz as the pump laser.Based on a bismuth borate nonlinear crystal,repetition rates up to 1.13 GHz are realized,which is 15 times that of the pump laser.The signal wavelength is tunable from 700 nm to 887 nm.The maximum power of the signal is 207 m W at the central wavelength of 750 nm and the shortest pulse duration is 117 fs at 780 nm.The beam quality(M^2 factor)in the horizontal and vertical directions of the output beam are 1.077 and 1.141,respectively.

Sub-40-fs high-power Yb:CALYO laser pumped by single-mode fiber laser

We report on the study of single-mode fiber-laser-pumped mode-locked Yb:CALYO lasers via using a passive saturable absorber and Kerr-lens mode-locking technique,respectively.Up to 3.1-W average power with 103-fs pulse duration is obtained from the passive mode-locking,and down to 36-fs pulse duration with more than 2-W average power is achieved by the pure Kerr-lens mode-locking,which is to the best of our knowledge,the highest average power from a reported sub-40-fs Yb-based solid-state oscillator.

Micro-mechanical model for predicting the elasto-plastic behavior of composites based on secant formulation method

To predict the Elasto-Plastic Behaviors(EPBs)of aligned inclusions reinforced composites,this paper develops an interpolative Mori-Tanaka/Double-Inclusion(MT-DI)homogenization model with the secant formulation,and gives the numerical implementation algorithms of the developed MT-DI model with the secant formulation.The Finite Element(FE)homogenization method is implemented to provide the "exact" EPBs of the composites and thus validate the MT-DI model with the secant formulation.The MT-DI model with the 2 nd-order secant formulation is validated to provide the more accurate predictions,while the MT-DI model with the 1 st-order secant formulation always gives the stiffer predictions.The results show that using the macro-stress and macrostrain as the inputs,the MT-DI model with the secant formulation gives the identical predictions.The predictions of the MT-DI model with the secant formulation vary between those of the MT and DI models with the secant formulation.Meanwhile,the MT-DI model with the secant formulation does not predict the accurate EPBs for the phases of the composites.