Silicate Bonding of Sapphire to SESAMs: SESAMs with Tunable Thermal Lensing for High-Power Lasers

Lukas Lang,Francesco Saltarelli,Grégoire Lacaille,Sheila Rowan,J. H. Hough,I. J. Graumann,Christopher R. Phillips,U. Keller

Silicate Bonding of Sapphire to SESAMs: SESAMs with Tunable Thermal Lensing for High-Power Lasers

2021

Lukas Lang
Francesco Saltarelli
Grégoire Lacaille
Sheila Rowan
J. H. Hough
I. J. Graumann
Christopher R. Phillips
U. Keller

We demonstrate for the first time silicate bonding of a SESAM to a sapphire superstrate to control the sign and magnitude of the SESAMs thermal lensing. We demonstrate modelocking in a 233-W average-power thin-disk laser.

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high power lasers
Laser
thermal lensing
Silicate
Magnitude (astronomy)
Self-phase modulation
Sign (mathematics)
Materials science
Sapphire
Optoelectronics

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