The yb 3 ion is used as a doping material in active laser media specifically in solid state lasers and double clad fiber lasers.
Ytterbium fiber laser.
Ytterbium can also easily be incorporated into the material used to make the laser.
Ytterbium lasers are highly efficient have long lifetimes and can generate short pulses.
They have a very simple electronic level structure with only one excited state manifold 2 f 5 2 within reach from the ground state manifold 2 f 7 2 with near infrared or visible photons pumping and amplification involve transitions between.
With 170 fs pulse widths 20 w average output power and a tunable repetition rate from 1 to 10 mhz this fiber laser enables a.
The ytterbium fiber laser can be randomly or linearly polarized.
Ytterbium doped laser crystals and glasses have a number of interesting properties which differ from those of e g neodymium doped gain media.
A fiber laser or fibre laser in british english is a laser in which the active gain medium is an optical fiber doped with rare earth elements such as erbium ytterbium neodymium dysprosium praseodymium thulium and holmium they are related to doped fiber amplifiers which provide light amplification without lasing fiber nonlinearities such as stimulated raman scattering or four wave.
Coming as an entirely integrated turnkey benchtop which can be driven.
The review is focused primarily on the main fiber laser.
Thorlabs y fi femtosecond ytterbium fiber laser is a high peak power nir laser that emits clean ultrafast pulses centered at 1035 nm.