Ultrashort-pulse laser with designer optical phase

Author

Metzger, N.K. ; Lubeigt, W. ; Burns, D. ; Griffith, M. ; Laycock, L. ; Lagatsky, A.A. ; Brown, C.T.A. ; Sibbett, W.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Phys. & Astron., Univ. of St Andrews, St. Andrews, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this work we investigate the performance of a novel ultrashort laser cavity design that incorporates an intracavity deformable mirror as a versatile phase-control element. With this cavity it is possible to induce user- defined phase changes into the pulse directly from the laser oscillator, as depicted in Fig. 1 thereby eliminating the need for an additional external pulse shaper.

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; optical pulse generation; designer optical phase; external pulse shaper; intracavity deformable mirror; laser oscillator; ultrashort laser cavity; ultrashort-pulse laser; user-defined phase changes; versatile phase-control element; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Optical design; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Optimized production technology; Phase control; Pulse shaping methods; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5194547

Filename

5194547