Where to Buy Ytterbium-doped Laser Gain Media

Optogama offers Yb:KGW, Yb:KYW, Yb:CaF₂ and other Yb-doped crystals which possess a broad gain bandwidth that enable the generation of femtosecond pulses in diode-laser pumped mode-locked lasers.

Compared with other ytterbium-doped gain media, ytterbium-doped tungstates has fairly high absorption and emission cross-sections.

Yb:CaF₂ features very broad and smooth emission bands, good thermal properties and can be grown of large dimension with high optical quality.

Fibercore's portfolio of erbium-doped fiber, PM erbium fiber, dual-clad erbium/ytterbium-doped fiber, triple-clad doped fiber and other doped fibers offers ideal suitability for high-power erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) and fiber lasers.

Yb³⁺:YAG, Yb³⁺:CaF₂ and other Yb³⁺-doped laser crystals are lately gaining more attention due to some unique lasing properties like very wide emission spectral range from 1020 nm to 1100 nm and the absence of excited-state absorption. Both the wide tuning range and generation of femtosecond laser pulses makes these laser gain media as the first choice for many applications.

Standard pre-configured Yb³⁺:YAG laser crystals with various doping levels from 0.5% to 10% and AR- or HR-coatings are available from stock. Customized designs are also available.

Our ytterbium double clad fibers offer the largest single-mode cores in the world. They enable amplification to unprecedented power levels while keeping mode quality and stability. If you are building picosecond or femtosecond ultrafast fiber lasers, our Yb-doped aeroGAIN gain modules may be just what you are looking for.

EKSMA Optics offers Yb:KGW and Yb:KYW single crystals for diode or laser pumped solid-state laser applications.

See us at CLEO 2024 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, May 7–9 (booth 305)!

Exail (formerly iXblue) offers a large choice of ytterbium-doped single clad and dual clad optical fibers to address a variety of laser performance requirements. Exail’s ytterbium-doped fibers have been designed to provide low noise and high optical conversion efficiency in fiber lasers and amplifiers at 1 µm.

Our portfolio contains single clad, double clad, LMA and VLMA Yb fibers (from 5 µm up to 40 µm core diameter) in PM and non-PM versions. Space and radiation-resistant versions are also available.

Benefits and features:

• high and consistent pump absorption
• low M²
• high efficiency

Applications: 1-μm CW and pulsed lasers and preamplifiers.

See us at CLEO 2024 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, May 7–9 (booth 508)!