Argon-ion-pumped and diode-pumped all-solid-state femtosecond Cr:LiSrAlF(6) regenerative amplifiers.

نویسندگان

  • S C Hyde
  • N P Barry
  • R Mellish
  • P M French
  • J R Taylor
  • C J van der Poel
  • A Valster
چکیده

A tunable femtosecond solid-state amplifier system that uses only 3 W of 488-nm argon-ion pump power has been demonstrated to deliver microjoule pulses at repetition rates up to 20 kHz, with a maximum pulse energy of 14 mu;J obtained at 5 kHz. An all-solid-state, tunable, diode-pumped Cr:LiSrAlF(6) regenerative amplifier has been demonstrated, for the first time to our knowledge, that amplifies femtosecond pulses to energies exceeding 1 mu;mJ at up to a 16-kHz repetition rate.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Optics letters

دوره 20 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1995