FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASER-PULSES AMPLIFIED BY A KCL-TL-CENTER AMPLIFIERFOR CONTINUUM GENERATION IN THE 1.5-MU-M REGION( COLOR)

Authors
LENZ G GELLERMANN W DOUGHERTY DJ TAMURA K IPPEN EP
Citation
G. Lenz et al., FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASER-PULSES AMPLIFIED BY A KCL-TL-CENTER AMPLIFIERFOR CONTINUUM GENERATION IN THE 1.5-MU-M REGION( COLOR), Optics letters, 21(2), 1996, pp. 137-139
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
21
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
137 - 139
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1996)21:2<137:FFLABA>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
A diode-pumped stretched-pulse additive-pulse mode-locked Er-doped fib er laser is used to seed a KCl:Tl+ color-center amplifier crystal. The initial 1-nJ chirped pulses are double passed through the amplifier, which is pumped by a 1-kHz Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. The resulting 10-m u J pulses are then chirp compensated to 250-fs duration and are used to generate a spectral continuum. A few high-nz materials are investig ated for continuum generation, and spectral slicing of the continuum i s demonstrated. (C) 1996 Optical Society of America