Ultraviolet picosecond pulses from an all-solid-state Ce:LiSAF/Ce:LiCAF master oscillator and power amplifier system

Author

Sarukura, N. ; Zhenlin Liu ; Izumida, S. ; Segawa, Yuji ; Dubinskii, M.A. ; Semashko, V.V. ; Naumov, A.K. ; Korableva, S.L. ; Abdulsabirov, R.Yu.

Author_Institution

RIKEN, Inst. of Phys. & Chem. Res., Sendai, Japan

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

112

Lastpage

113

Abstract

Summary form only given. We have demonstrated the simplest, all-solid-state, UV short pulse Ce:LiSrAlF/sub 6//Ce:LiCaAlF/sub 6/ master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system pumped by the fourth harmonics of a conventional Q-switched Nd:YAG laser.

Keywords

aluminium compounds; calcium compounds; cerium; high-speed optical techniques; lithium compounds; optical harmonic generation; optical pumping; solid lasers; strontium compounds; Ce:LiSAF/Ce:LiCAF master oscillator power amplifier system; Ce:LiSrAlF/sub 6//Ce:LiCaAlF/sub 6/; LiCaAlF/sub 6/:Ce; LiSrAlF/sub 6/:Ce; Q-switched Nd:YAG laser; UV short pulse; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; all-solid-state; fourth harmonics; laser pumping; solid laser amplifiers; ultraviolet picosecond pulses; Laser excitation; Laser tuning; Mirrors; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Ring 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

864434