Highly-compact, femtosecond Cr:LiSAF lasers

Author

Agate, B. ; Kemp, Andreas J. ; Hopkins, J.-M. ; Sibbett, W. ; Keller, Ulrich ; Burns, Dave

Author_Institution

Sch. of Phys. & Astron., Univ. of St. Andrews, UK

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

27

Abstract

Summary form only given. In this paper we present laser designs that begin to address the issues of size, cost and fragility of femtosecond sources. We have shown that it is possible to reduce the threshold of femtosecond Cr:LiSAF lasers sufficiently that cheap single-spatial-mode, narrow-stripe red laser diodes (output power /spl sim/50 mW) become viable pump sources.

Keywords

chromium; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; solid lasers; 50 mW; Cr:LiSAF lasers; Gires-Tournois Interferometer mirror; LiSrAlF/sub 6/:Cr; cylindrical microlenses; dispersion compensation; highly-compact femtosecond lasers; laser designs; mode-locked output power; narrow-stripe red laser diodes; near-transform-limited pulses; pump sources; single spatial-mode diodes; threshold reduction; wavelength coupling; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Mirrors; Physics; Power generation; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Ultrafast electronics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.947419

Filename

947419