Title :
Generation of sub-150-fs, 100 nJ pulses from a low-cost cavity-dumped Cr:LiSAF laser
Author :
Demirbas, Umit ; Hong, Kyung-Han ; Fujimoto, James G. ; Sennaroglu, Alphan ; Kärtner, Franz X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
We report a low-cost, cavity dumped Cr:LiSAF laser, generating 135-fs pulses at 825 nm, with 105 nJ pulse energies and ∼0.78 MW of peak power at 10 kHz, using only 600 mW of pump power.
Keywords :
Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Optical pulse generation; Power generation; Power lasers; Pulse measurements; Pump lasers; Semiconductor diodes; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
