Title :
Shoe box all semiconductor high power femtosecond laser system
Author :
Balzer, J.C. ; Schlauch, T. ; Hofmann, M.R. ; Klehr, A. ; Erbert, G.
Author_Institution :
Lehrstuhl fur Photonik und Terahertztechnologie, Ruhr Univ. Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Abstract :
The aim of this work is the combination of intracavity dispersion management, pulse amplification and pulse compression with a very compact form. The system was characterized and the dimensions of which are not bigger than a shoe box and specifications comparable to those of standard Ti:sapphire lasers are demonstrated. A modular system consisting of a mode-locked oscillator, a tapered semiconductor amplifier, and an external pulse compressor are used.
Keywords :
laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical dispersion; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; all semiconductor high power femtosecond laser system; external pulse compressor; intracavity dispersion management; mode-locked oscillator; pulse amplification; pulse compression; standard Ti:sapphire lasers; tapered semiconductor amplifier; Cavity resonators; Chirp; Laser mode locking; Oscillators; Semiconductor lasers; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN :
Pending
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942508
