Open AccessDissipative soliton operation of a diode pumped Yb:NaY(WO_4)_2 laser
Author(s) -
Jie Ma,
Jun Wang,
Deyuan Shen,
Haohai Yu,
Huaijin Zhang,
Dingyuan Tang
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.23.032311
Subject(s) - dissipative soliton , dissipative system , optics , soliton , dispersion (optics) , laser , diode , mode locking , pulse (music) , physics , fiber laser , materials science , optoelectronics , quantum mechanics , nonlinear system , detector
We report on the dissipative soliton operation of a diode pumped Yb:NaY(WO₄)₂ (Yb:NYW) solid-state laser. The dissipative solitons and their features as the net cavity group velocity dispersion is changed from the normal to the anomalous dispersion regime are experimentally investigated. Taking advantage of the dissipative soliton shaping of the mode-locked pulses we have generated stable near transform-limited pulses as short as 54 fs. To our knowledge, this is so far the shortest pulse directly obtained from the mode-locked Yb:NYW oscillator.