• DocumentCode
    733742
  • Title

    Ultrafast diode-pumped Ti:Sapphire laser generating 200-mW average power in 68-fs pulses

  • Author

    Gurel, Kutan ; Hoffmann, Martin ; Saraceno, Clara J. ; Wittwer, Valentin J. ; Hakobyan, Sargis ; Resan, Bojan ; Rohrbacher, Andreas ; Weingarten, Kurt ; Schilt, Stephane ; Sudmeyer, Thomas

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. Temps-Frequence, Univ. de Neuchatel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We present the highest average power from a diode-pumped Ti:Sapphire laser. Using self-starting SESAM-modelocking we obtain 200 mW in 68-fs pulses at 378 MHz. The laser is pumped by two air-cooled 520 nm AlInGaN laser diodes.
  • Keywords
    laser mirrors; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; optical saturable absorption; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; Al2O3:Ti; air-cooled AlInGaN laser diodes; frequency 378 MHz; power 200 mW; self-starting SESAM-mode-locking; time 68 fs; ultrafast diode-pumped Ti:Sapphire laser; wavelength 520 nm; Crystals; Diode lasers; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Semiconductor diodes; Semiconductor lasers; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7184184