Title :
High repetition rate compact mode-locked Cr/sup 4+/-doped lasers
Author :
Mellish, Richard ; Chernikov, S.V. ; French, Paul M. W. ; Taylor, J.R. ; Platonov, N.N. ; Gapontsev, V.P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK
Abstract :
Summary form only given. This is, to our knowledge, the highest output power produced by a femtosecond Cr/sup 4+/:YAG laser to date. Shortening the cavity produced 125-fs duration pulses with 110 mW average output power in a single beam, at a repetition rate of 1 GHz. To produce a more compact and efficient system, we employ a diode-pumped Yb-doped fiber laser as the pump source.
Keywords :
chromium; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; optical pumping; solid lasers; 110 mW; 125 fs; YAG:Cr; YAl5O12:Cr; diode-pumped Yb-doped fiber laser; femtosecond Cr/sup 4+/:YAG laser; fs duration pulses; high repetition rate compact mode-locked Cr/sup 4+/-doped lasers; highest output power; laser pump source; mW average output power; repetition rate; single beam; Chromium; Diodes; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser modes; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Ultrafast optics;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.1998.676248
