Room-temperature cw Cr/sup 4+/:forsterite laser using an ultrathin crystal pumped in the near-infrared

Author

Golubovic, B. ; Bouma, B. ; Bilinsky, I.P. ; Fujimoto, J.G. ; Mikhailov, V.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

500

Lastpage

501

Abstract

Summary form only given. Chromium-doped forsterite (Cr/sup 4+/:Mg/sub 2/SiO/sub 4/) laser materials are of interest because this material permits the development of tunable solid-state sources in the 1.13-1.37-/spl mu/m wavelength range. Since the first demonstration of laser operation several years ago, high-power operation, and mode-locked picosecond and femtosecond operation have been achieved in this material.

Keywords

chromium; high-speed optical techniques; infrared sources; laser mode locking; laser transitions; laser tuning; magnesium compounds; optical pumping; solid lasers; /spl mu/m wavelength range; 1.13 to 1.37 mum; Mg/sub 2/SiO/sub 4/:Cr; femtosecond operation; high-power operation; laser operation; mode-locked lasers; near-infrared pumping; picosecond operation; room-temperature cw Cr/sup 4+/:forsterite laser; tunable solid-state sources; ultrathin crystal; Absorption; Chromium; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Solid lasers; Tunable circuits and devices; Ultrafast electronics; Ultrafast optics;

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

864980