ARGON-ION-PUMPED AND DIODE-PUMPED ALL-SOLID-STATE FEMTOSECOND CRLISRALF6 REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIERS

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作者
HYDE, SCW [1 ]
BARRY, NP [1 ]
MELLISH, R [1 ]
FRENCH, PMW [1 ]
TAYLOR, JR [1 ]
VANDERPOEL, CJ [1 ]
VALSTER, A [1 ]
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[1] PHILIPS OPTOELECTR CTR,5656 AA EINDHOVEN,NETHERLANDS
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10.1364/OL.20.000160
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
A tunable femtosecond solid-state amplifier system that uses only 3 W of 488-nm argon-ion pump power has been demonstrated to deliver microjoule pulses at repetition rates up to 20 kHz, with a maximum pulse energy of 14 muJ obtained at 5 kHz. An all-solid-state, tunable, diode-pumped Cr:LiSrAlF6 regenerative amplifier has been demonstrated, for the first time to our knowledge, that amplifies femtosecond pulses to energies exceeding 1 muJ at up to a 16-kHz repetition rate.
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