Title :
Scaleable high-energy femtosecond Ti:sapphire oscillator
Author :
Apolonski, A. ; Fernandez, A. ; Fuji, T. ; Krausz, F. ; Fürbach, A. ; Stingl, A.
Author_Institution :
Photonics Inst., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Austria
Abstract :
We demonstrate a Ti:sapphire oscillator generating 130-220 nJ pulses of 27-35 fs at a repetition rate of 11 MHz. Excessive nonlinearities are avoided by chirped picosecond pulse generation from the oscillator followed by extracavity compression. The concept is scaleable to higher pulse energies.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; laser cavity resonators; nonlinear optics; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; solid lasers; titanium; 11 MHz; 130 to 220 nJ; 27 to 35 fs; Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/:Ti; chirped pulse generation; extracavity compression; femtosecond oscillator; high-energy oscillator; picosecond pulse generation; scaleable Ti:sapphire oscillator;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
