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So far, all femtosecond thin-disk oscillators have been mode-locked by means of SESAM. The KLM technique has been proposed many times and simultaneously criticized as difficult to realize [1–3]

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This criticism is not truly objective and is sometimes of advertising and promotional character.

  2. 2.

    At least, by the SESAMs available from Batop, ANU, Reflekron, WSI.

  3. 3.

    The calculations were done by Brons.

  4. 4.

    Preliminary simulations were done by Kalashnikov.

  5. 5.

    The control box had maximum control voltage at the moment of turning on the pump diodes. The maximum control voltage corresponds to a pump power of \({>}{500}\,\mathrm{{W}}\).

  6. 6.

    The pictures were made by Larionov.

  7. 7.

    Private discussion with Pervak.

  8. 8.
    $$\begin{aligned} {\bigtriangleup q=\frac{969\text {--}940\,\mathrm{{nm}}}{1030\text {--}940\,\mathrm{{nm}}}=0.32.} \end{aligned}$$

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Pronin, O. (2014). Kerr-Lens Mode-Locked Thin-Disk Oscillator. In: Towards a Compact Thin-Disk-Based Femtosecond XUV Source. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01511-8_5

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