High-average-power kilohertz-repetition-rate sub-100-fs Ti:sapphire amplifier system

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作者
Fu, Q [1 ]
Seier, F [1 ]
Gayen, SK [1 ]
Alfano, RR [1 ]
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[1] CUNY CITY COLL,DEPT PHYS,INST ULTRAFAST SPECT & LASERS,NEW YORK,NY 10031
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10.1364/OL.22.000712
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We report on a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser amplifier system that generates pulse energies >5 mJ at a 1-kHz repetition rate. The system consists of regenerative and multipass amplifiers and uses the technique of chirped-pulse amplification. When the system was seeded with 70-fs pulses at 800 nm from a self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire oscillator, amplified pulses of 94-fs duration at a repetition rate of 1 kHz and an average output power of 5.4 W were produced. The amplified pulse-repetition rate is variable from 250 Hz to 3 kHz. Pulse energies of >7.5 mJ were obtained at 500 and 250 Hz. (C) 1997 Optical Society of America.
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