Cavity dumped femtosecond Kerr-lens mode locked chromium-doped forsterite laser

Author

Slobodchikov, E. ; Jangseok Ma ; Karnalov, V. ; Tominaga, Kazuhiro ; Yoshihara, Kiyohito

Author_Institution

Inst. of Chem. Phys., Acad. of Sci., Moscow, Russia

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

150

Lastpage

151

Abstract

Summary form only given. Recently the chromium doped forsterite (Cr/sup 4+/:Mg/sub 2/SiO/sub 4/) laser has been developed as a reliable source of generating ultrashort pulse at the near-infrared region. Varying repetition rate is important to avoid the accumulating effect of signal overlaps due to high repetition rates (-100 MHz) in many experiments. Incorporating a cavity dumper in the laser resonator is a simple and convenient method of providing medium-to-high peak power with a variable repetition rate.

Keywords

chromium; high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; magnesium compounds; optical Kerr effect; reflectivity; solid lasers; Cr/sup 4+/:MgSiO/sub 4/ laser; Mg/sub 2/SiO/sub 4/:Cr; NIR ultrashort pulse generation; cavity dumped femtosecond Kerr-lens mode locked laser; cavity dumper; high repetition rate; laser resonator; medium-to-high peak power; near-infrared region; signal overlap; variable repetition rate; varying repetition rate; Charge coupled devices; Chemical lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Mirrors; Optical pulse shaping; Optimized production technology; Pump lasers; Reflectivity; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-443-2

Type

conf

Filename

864488