Electro-optically cavity-dumped ultrashort-pulse Ti:sapphire oscillator

被引:31
作者
Gibson, GN
Klank, R
Gibson, F
Bouma, BE
机构
[1] MIT,ELECTR RES LAB,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02139
[2] MIT,DEPT ELECT ENGN & COMP SCI,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02139
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10.1364/OL.21.001055
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O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We report the demonstration of what we believe is the first electro-optically cavity-dumped short-pulse Ti:sapphire oscillator. By designing a novel ultrabroadband, zero-dispersion, zero-insertion-loss polarizer we have obtained single-pulse energies of >200 nJ directly from the oscillator at a repetition rate of 1 kHz. The pulse duration is <20 fs with >10 MW peak power and high contrast (>2000) between the pulses immediately preceding and following the main pulse. This system is well suited for white-light continuum generation and seeding multipass or regenerative amplifiers. (C) 1996 Optical Society of America
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页码:1055 / 1057
页数:3
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