Tunable picosecond blue and ultraviolet pulses from a diode-pumped laser system seeded by a gain-switched laser diode.

نویسندگان

  • F Balembois
  • M Gaignet
  • P Georges
  • A Brun
  • N Stelmakh
  • J M Lourtioz
چکیده

Picosecond pulses emitted from a gain-switched laser diode have been amplified in a Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier indirectly pumped by a 4-W laser diode. This all-solid-state system produced microjoule pulses tunable from 803 to 840 nm at repetition rates up to 25 kHz with durations of 70-100 ps. By frequency doubling and tripling the output, we generated blue and UV pulses tunable from 401 to 420 nm and from 268 to 280 nm, respectively. Average powers larger than 4 mW were reached in these two wavelength regions.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Applied optics

دوره 37 21  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1998