• DocumentCode
    376518
  • Title

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

  • Author

    Murakami, H. ; Suzuki, Y. ; Kozeki, T. ; Ohtake, H. ; Liu, Z. ; Sarukura, N.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Molecular Sci., Okazaki, Japan
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    15-19 July 2001
  • Abstract
    The scalability and cascadability of cw-multipass amplifier for high-average-power femtosecond pulse is discussed. A single stage module using Ti:sapphire with the 4.2-times small-signal gain and 10.6% extraction efficiency is demonstrated to deliver 5.77-W femtosecond pulses.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; modules; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; 10.6 percent; 5.77 W; Ti:sapphire laser; average power scaling; cascading cw multi-pass laser amplifier; extraction efficiency; femtosecond pulses; high repetition-rate femtosecond pulses; high-average-power femtosecond pulse; single stage module; small-signal gain; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Power lasers; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2001. The 4th Pacific Rim Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chiba, Japan
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6738-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2001.970827
  • Filename
    970827