Title :
All-solid-state Cr:forsterite femtosecond laser designed as a three-element resonator
Author :
Jager, F. ; Noack, F. ; Zhavoronkov, N.
Author_Institution :
Max-Born-Inst. for Nonlinear Opt. & Short Pulse Spectrosc., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
Summary form only given. With the perspective of industrial applications, progress has been achieved in the design of compact femtosecond laser sources, which use soft-aperture KLM (Kerr-lens mode-locking) and GVD (group velocity dispersion) compensation without the use of a sequential prism pair or dispersion-compensating mirrors. The paper reports on a femtosecond Cr:forsterite (Cr/sup 4+/:Mg/sub 2/SiO/sub 4/) laser with only three intracavity elements, including a prismatic cut laser rod and a prismatic output coupler. The emission wavelengths for fs pulses range from 1230 nm to 1305 nm and are applicable for telecommunications and medical imaging (optical coherence tomography).
Keywords :
chromium; laser beam applications; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; lenses; magnesium compounds; optical Kerr effect; optical couplers; optical pulse generation; solid lasers; 1230 to 1305 nm; Cr/sup 4+/:Mg/sub 2/SiO/sub 4/ laser; Cr:forsterite femtosecond laser; Kerr-lens mode-locking; Mg/sub 2/SiO/sub 4/:Cr; compact femtosecond laser sources; design; emission wavelengths; femtosecond laser; femtosecond pulses; group velocity dispersion compensation; industrial applications; intracavity elements; medical imaging; optical coherence tomography; prismatic cut laser rod; prismatic output coupler; soft-aperture Kerr-lens mode-locking; telecommunications; three-element resonator; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical optical imaging; Chromium; Laser beam cutting; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Optical coupling; Optical design; Optical pulses; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2000. (CLEO 2000). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-634-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2000.906756
