CAVITY-DUMPED FEMTOSECOND KERR-LENS MODE-LOCKED TI-AL2O3 LASER

被引:62
作者
RAMASWAMY, M
ULMAN, M
PAYE, J
FUJIMOTO, JG
机构
[1] Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
[2] Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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D O I
10.1364/OL.18.001822
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We report the generation of pulses with energies as high as 100 nJ and durations as short as 50 fs directly from a mode-locked Ti:Al2O3 laser, using the technique of cavity dumping. The simplicity, high energy, short pulse widths, and variable repetition rate of this system make it an attractive tunable source for ultrafast measurements.
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页码:1822 / 1824
页数:3
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