Title :
Diode-pumped gigahertz repetition rate femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser
Author :
Li, Duo ; Demirbas, Umit ; Birge, Jonathan R. ; Petrich, Gale S. ; Kolodziejski, Leslie A. ; Sennaroglu, Alphan ; Kärtner, Franz X. ; Fujimoto, James G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
We report a low-cost, 1 GHz repetition-rate, diode-pumped, saturable Bragg reflectors mode-locked Cr:LiSAF laser, which generates nearly transform-limited 103-fs long pulses around 866 nm, with a record high peak power of 1.45 kW.
Keywords :
Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Masers; Mirrors; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Semiconductor diodes; Ultrafast electronics; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
