Title :
High average power, 10 W Ti:sapphire laser amplifier system using downchirped pulse amplification
Author :
Kohl, Pat ; Lytle, Amy ; Kapteyn, Henry ; Murnane, Margaret ; Backus, Sterling
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a single stage ultrafast laser system that is capable of up to 10.7 W of average power at 10 kHz repetition frequency and employs a glass pulse compressor.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; 10 kHz; 10.7 W; Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/:Ti; Ti:sapphire laser amplifier; downchirped pulse amplification; glass pulse compressor;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
