High-average-power femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser with an intracavity continuous wave amplifier

Author

Zhenlin Liu ; Ono, Shintaro ; Ohtake, H. ; Sarukura, N. ; Tze-An Liu ; Huang, K.F. ; Ci-Ling Pan

Author_Institution

Inst. for Molecular Sci., Okazaki, Japan

fYear

2000

fDate

7-12 May 2000

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

87

Abstract

Summary form only given. The requirement for the average power of high-repetition-rate femtosecond lasers has been one of the most important factor for these lasers used as pumping sources of THz-radiation from InAs in a magnetic field. Also, the average power is important for the various parametric wavelength conversions. However, the output average power of femtosecond mode-locked lasers has been limited to the 2-W level. In the presentation, we describe a high-repetition-rate, high-average-power, femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser realized by applying an intracavity continuous wave (CW) amplifier.

Keywords

laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; 2 W; Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/:Ti; CW amplifier; InAs; THz-radiation; Ti:sapphire laser; average power; femtosecond mode-locked lasers; high-average-power femtosecond laser; high-repetition-rate femtosecond laser; high-repetition-rate high-average-power femtosecond laser; intracavity continuous wave amplifier; magnetic field; output average power; parametric wavelength conversions; pumping sources; Crystals; High power amplifiers; Large Hadron Collider; Laser modes; Optical coupling; Optical pulses; Power generation; Power lasers; Solid lasers; Solid state circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2000. (CLEO 2000). Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-634-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2000.906758

Filename

906758