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Andreas Schmidt, Valentin Petrov, Uwe Griebner, Rigo Peters, Klaus Petermann, Günter Huber, Christian Fiebig, Katrin Paschke, Götz Erbert
The mode locking of the mixed sesquioxide single crystal Yb:LuScO_3 is demonstrated. This crystal is locally disordered and has the broadest emission spectrum of all sesquioxides known so far. Pulse durations as short as 111 and 74 fs were obtained using the semiconductor saturable absorber mirror ... [Opt. Lett. 35, 511-513 (2010)]