All solid state femtosecond laser oscillators and amplifiers

Sam C. W. Hyde; Nicholas P. Barry; Richard Mellish; Paul M. W. French; J. Roy Taylor; Carel J. van den Poel; Adriaan Valster

doi:10.1117/12.206427

10 April 1995 All solid state femtosecond laser oscillators and amplifiers

Sam C. W. Hyde, Nicholas P. Barry, Richard Mellish, Paul M. W. French, J. Roy Taylor, Carel J. van den Poel, Adriaan Valster

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Proceedings Volume 2377, Generation, Amplification, and Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses II; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206427
Event: Photonics West '95, 1995, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The development of low-cost and potentially compact femtosecond laser oscillators and amplifiers is discussed. The first all-solid-state femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser is described. A tunable femtosecond solid-state amplifier system pumped by only 3 W of 488 nm argon ion radiation has been demonstrated to deliver microjoule pulses at repetition rates up to approximately 20 kHz, with a maximum pulse energy of 14 (mu) J obtained at 5 kHz. The first all-solid-state, tunable, diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF regenerative amplifier, which amplifies femtosecond pulses to energies exceeding 1 (mu) J at up to 16 kHz repetition rate, is also reported.

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Sam C. W. Hyde, Nicholas P. Barry, Richard Mellish, Paul M. W. French, J. Roy Taylor, Carel J. van den Poel, and Adriaan Valster "All solid state femtosecond laser oscillators and amplifiers", Proc. SPIE 2377, Generation, Amplification, and Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses II, (10 April 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206427

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