Gain-switched laser diode seeded diode-pumped regenerative amplifier for microjoule picosecond tunable UV pulses

Author

Balembois, F. ; Gaignet, M. ; Georges, P. ; Brun, A. ; Stelmakh, N. ; Lourtioz, J.M.

Author_Institution

Inst. d´Opt. Theor. et Appliquee, Univ. de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

256

Abstract

Summary form only given. Injection seeding of ultrashort semiconductor lasers into solid-state amplifiers is a simple way to reduce the size of femtosecond or picosecond high-energy laser systems. We present for the first time a very compact system combining a picosecond laser diode with a diode pumped regenerative amplifier capable of generating tunable microjoule UV pulses by frequency conversion. The system used an indirectly diode-pumped Ti:sapphire laser amplifier.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser tuning; optical frequency conversion; optical pumping; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; diode pumped regenerative amplifier; gain-switched laser diode seeded diode-pumped regenerative amplifier; indirectly diode-pumped Ti:sapphire laser amplifier; microjoule picosecond tunable UV pulses; optical frequency conversion; picosecond high-energy laser systems; picosecond laser diode; solid-state amplifiers; tunable microjoule UV pulses; ultrashort semiconductor lasers; Diode lasers; Laser excitation; Optical pulse generation; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Semiconductor diodes; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Solid lasers; Solid state circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.676134

Filename

676134