Femtosecond Pulse Generation from an Extended Cavity Cr4+:forsterite Laser using Graphene on YAG

A room temperature, multipass-cavity, femtosecond Cr4+:forsterite laser was mode-locked with a single-layer graphene saturable absorber on a YAG substrate. The resonator produced nearly transform-limited 92 fs pulses near 1250 nm with 53 kW of peak power.