• DocumentCode
    546962
  • Title

    Subpicosecond pulse generation from a chirped-pulse multipass-cavity Cr4+:Forsterite oscillator

  • Author

    Cankaya, Huseyin ; Akturk, Selcuk ; Sennaroglu, Alphan

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Koc Univ., Istanbul, Turkey
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We produced the highest pulse energy directly generated from a room-temperature, mode-locked Cr4+:forsterite oscillator. The chirped-pulse, multipass-cavity, 1261-nm oscillator operated at 4.9 MHz and produced 81 -nJ pulses which could be externally compressed to 620 fs.
  • Keywords
    chirp modulation; chromium; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; magnesium compounds; optical parametric oscillators; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; solid lasers; Mg2SiO4:Cr; chirped pulse multipass cavity oscillator; energy 81 nJ; subpicosecond pulse generation; temperature 293 K to 298 K; time 620 fs; wavelength 1261 nm; Cavity resonators; Chirp; Dispersion; Gratings; Laser mode locking; Optics; Oscillators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951188