EPJ Web of Conferences (Mar 2013)

Ultrafast thin disk lasers: sub-100 fs pulse duration and carrier envelope offset detection

  • Huber Günter,
  • Kränkel Christian,
  • Beil Kolja,
  • Golling Matthias,
  • Schriber Cinia,
  • Baer Cyrill R. E.,
  • Heckl Oliver H.,
  • Pekarek Selina,
  • Saraceno Clara J.,
  • Südmeyer Thomas,
  • Keller Ursula

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134110009
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 41
p. 10009

Abstract

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We present two milestone results that confirm that thin disk lasers are excellent candidates for driving extreme nonlinear optics experiments. In a first experiment using the broadband mixed sesquioxide gain material Yb:LuScO3, we demonstrate that thin disk lasers can access the sub-100 fs regime. In a second experiment, we detect for the first time the carrier envelope offset (CEO) frequency beat of an Yb:Lu2O3 thin disk laser.