Compact high-repetition rate femtosecond lasers using chirped mirrors

Author

Stingl, A. ; Spielman, C. ; Szipocs, Robert ; Krausz, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Quantum Electron. & Laser Technol., Tech. Univ. Wien, Austria

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

66

Lastpage

67

Abstract

Summary form only given. In conventional femtosecond solid-state lasers, the intracavity prism pair imposes severe constraint on the resonator length, and thus on the maximum achievable pulse repetition rate. This constraint can be eliminated by using chirped dielectric mirrors for both feedback and intracavity-dispersion control. Drawing on this concept a new generation of compact high-repetition-rate Kerr-lens mode-locked (KLM) lasers can be developed.

Keywords

chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; optical Kerr effect; solid lasers; Kerr-lens mode-locked laser; chirped dielectric mirrors; compact femtosecond solid-state laser; feedback control; intracavity-dispersion control; pulse repetition rate; Birefringence; Chirp modulation; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Mirrors; Optical pulse generation; Power lasers; Pulse modulation; Pump lasers; Solid lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-443-2

Type

conf

Filename

864365