Title :
High-power self-starting femtosecond Cr:forsterite laser
Author :
Petrov, Valentin ; Shcheslavskiy, V. ; Mirtchev, T. ; Noack, Ferenc ; Itatani, T. ; Sugaya, Takeyoshi ; Nakagawa, T.
Author_Institution :
Max-Born-Inst. for Nonlinear Opt. & Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Berlin
fDate :
3/19/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors describe a self-starting self-modelocked Cr:forsterite laser generating sub-100 fs transform limited pulses near 1260 nm with output energies as high as 10 nJ, and report 30% conversion efficiency in extracavity frequency doubling
Keywords :
chromium; laser mode locking; magnesium compounds; optical communication equipment; optical pumping; solid lasers; 10 nJ; 100 fs; 1260 nm; 30 percent; Cr:forsterite laser; Mg2SiO4:Cr; extracavity frequency doubling; femtosecond laser; fs transform limited pulses; high-power laser; self-modelocked laser; self-starting laser;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19980388
