Journal
SOLID STATE LASERS XXII: TECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES
Volume 8599, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING
DOI: 10.1117/12.2003877
Keywords
Mid-infrared femtosecond oscillator; Mid-IR laser; Cr:ZnS; Cr:ZnSe lasers; solid-state lasers
Funding
- Autrian Science Fund [P24916]
- Norwegian Research Council (NFR) [N219686]
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A room-temperature Kerr-Lens modelocked (KLM) Cr:ZnS laser generates <70 fs pulses duration (about eight optical cycles) with 5.6 nJ pulse energy and over 100 nm FWHM spectral width at 105-157 MHz repetition rates. The laser produces 1 W average output power at 20% optical efficiency, limited by the available Er: fiber pump. For further pulse energy scaling we also realized the chirped-pulse regime, with 0.8-2 ps pulse durations. The demonstrated applications of such mid-IR source range from extra- and intra-cavity spectroscopy to subharmonic OPO pumping. For environmentally-protected delivery we suggest and realize duration-preserving soliton delivery in a ZBLAN fiber. Further bandwidth increase is demonstrated by 2.0-2.8 mu m supercontinuum generation in a chalcogenide fiber.
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