A few-cycle Cr/sup 4+/:YAG laser

Author

Ripin, D.J. ; Gopinath, Juliet T. ; Shen, H.M. ; Kaertner, Franz ; Ippen, Erich P ; Erchak, A.A. ; Petrich, Gale S. ; Kolodziejski, Leslie A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Abstract

Summary form only given. Kerr-lens mode locked Cr/sup 4+/:YAG lasers are used to generate ultrashort optical pulses near 1.5 /spl mu/m because of their large spectral bandwidth. Pulses as short as 43 fs and 44 fs self-started by a saturable absorber mirror have been generated from Cr/sup 4+/:YAG lasers using fused silica prism pairs for group velocity dispersion compensation.

Keywords

chromium; infrared sources; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; laser transitions; optical Kerr effect; optical dispersion; optical prisms; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; solid lasers; 1.5 micron; 43 fs; 44 fs; IR ultrashort optical pulse generation; Kerr-lens mode locked; YAG:Cr/sup 4+/; YAl5O12:Cr; few-cycle Cr/sup 4+/:YAG laser; fused silica prism pairs; group velocity dispersion compensation; large spectral bandwidth; saturable absorber mirror; self-started; Chromium; Delay; Gallium arsenide; Laser beam cutting; Mirrors; Optical pulse generation; Optimized production technology; Pump lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1033383

Filename

1033383