Novel solid state / fiber / diode lasers and applications (3)

[ALPS11-02] Diode-pumped 88-fs mode-locked Tm,Ho:CLNGG laser based on GaSb-SESAM

*Anna Suzuki¹, Yicheng Wang¹, Sergei Tomilov¹, Zhongben Pan², Clara Jody Saraceno¹ (1. Ruhr-University Bochum, 2. Key Laboratory of Laser and Infrared System of Ministry of Education)

We present a SESAM mode-locked Tm,Ho:CLNGG laser pumped by an affordable laser diode. We demonstrate the first sub-100-fs diode-pumped mode-locked laser in the 2-μm wavelength range.