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[ALPS7-01] SESAM mode-locked Tm,Ho:Ca(Gd,Y)AlO₄ laser at 2130 nm

Zhang-Lang Lin^1,2, *Valentin Petrov¹, Uwe Griebner¹, Ge Zhang², Peixiong Zhang³, Zhen Li³, Zhenqiang Chen³, Xavier Mateos⁴, Pavel Loiko⁵, Weidong Chen^1,2 (1. Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, 2. Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, 3. Jinan University, 4. Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 5. Université de Caen)

We demonstrate a SESAM mode-locked Tm,Ho:Ca(Gd,Y)AlO4 laser delivering soliton pulses as short as 114 fs at 2130 nm with an average output power of 142 mW at a pulse repetition rate of ~80.5 MHz.