Average power scaling of high repetition-rate femtosecond pulses by cascading multi-pass cw-amplifier

Author

Murakami, H. ; Suzuki, Yuya ; Kozeki, T. ; Zhenlin Liu ; Sarukura, N.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Molecular Sci., Okazaki, Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

30

Abstract

Summary form only given. We discuss the scalability and cascadability of a cw-multipass amplifier for high-average-power femtosecond pulses over 10 W level. For exploring these possibilities, a confocal, reflection-double-pass, cw amplifier using Ti:sapphire was demonstrated as a single-stage gain module. This module produces successfully 5.77-W average-power, small-signal gain of 4.2, and 10.6 % extraction efficiency.

Keywords

optical pulse generation; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; 10 W; 10.6 percent; 5.77 W; Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/:Ti; Ti:sapphire; average power scaling; cascadability; cascading multi-pass cw-amplifier; confocal reflection-double-pass cw amplifier; extraction efficiency; high repetition-rate femtosecond pulses; high-average-power femtosecond pulses; scalability; single-stage gain module; small-signal gain; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Ultrafast optics;

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.2001.947422

Filename

947422