Title :
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
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;
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
