Highly compact and efficient femtosecond Cr:LiSAF lasers

被引：39

作者：

Hopkins, JM ^{[1
]}

Valentine, GJ

Agate, B

Kemp, AJ

Keller, U

Sibbett, W

机构：

[1] Univ Strathclyde, Inst Photon, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland

[2] Univ St Andrews, Sch Phys & Astron, JF Allen Phys Res Labs, St Andrews KY16 9SS, Fife, Scotland

[3] ETH Honggerberg, Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Inst Quantum Elect, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland

来源：

IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS | 2002年 / 38卷 / 04期

关键词：

diode-pumped lasers; modelocked lasers; ultrafast lasers; ultrashort-pulse generation;

D O I：

10.1109/3.992549

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

Methods for developing more compact femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser sources are examined. By careful modeling of the low threshold performance and intracavity dispersion characteristics of these cavities, a highly asymmetric z-cavity design with a single prism for dispersion compensation is developed. Transform-limited pulses as short as 113 fs and modelocked. output powers up to 20 mW are demonstrated for less than 110 mW of laser-diode pump power. The complete laser system (including the laser diode pump system and drivers) has a footprint of 21.5 x 28 cm(2), about the size of a sheet of US letter or A4 paper.

引用

页码：360 / 368

页数：9

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