Title :
Development of a 1 TW Ti:sapphire laser with sub-20 fs duration
Author :
Zhiyi Wei ; Jie Zhang
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Phys., Acad. Sinica, Beijing, China
fDate :
Aug. 30 1999-Sept. 3 1999
Abstract :
The rapid progress of chirped pulse amplification (CPA) technique has made it possible to produce multi-terawatt laser pulses with sub-30 fs duration. A 100 TW Ti:sapphire laser system with sub-20 fs pulse duration was reported recently. In this presentation, we report on construction and development of an amplifier which is capable of producing 1 TW pulses with sub-20 fs duration pumped at 10 Hz by a Nd:YAG laser with only 300 mJ energy.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; optical modulation; optical pumping; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; 1 TW; 20 fs; 300 mJ; Nd:YAG laser; TW Ti:sapphire laser; chirped pulse amplification; fs duration; fs pulse duration; mJ energy; multi-terawatt laser pulses; Delay; Gratings; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Physics; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO/Pacific Rim '99. The Pacific Rim Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul, South Korea
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5661-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.1999.811420
