• DocumentCode
    3023547
  • Title

    Stable Long-Cavity Regenerative Amplifier with 10-11 ASE Contrast

  • Author

    Easter, J. ; Hou, B. ; Power, E. ; Nees, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Design and measurements of a high-contrast millijoule regenerative amplifier are presented. Coupled with a preamplifier and saturable absorber, the amplifier and subsequent compressor produce 3.7 mJ, 33 fs pulses with nanosecond ASE contrast of 10-11.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser stability; optical pulse compression; sapphire; solid lasers; superradiance; titanium; Al2O3:Ti; Ti:sapphire crystal; amplified spontaneous emission; femtosecond pulse compression; high-contrast regenerative amplifier; long-cavity regenerative amplifier; millijoule regenerative amplifier; nanosecond ASE contrast; preamplifier; saturable absorber; stable regenerative amplifier; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453573
  • Filename
    4453573
    • Link To Document
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