CONTINUOUS-WAVE MODE-LOCKED TI-SAPPHIRE LASER FOCUSABLE TO 5 X 10(13)W CM(2)/

Authors
XU L TEMPEA G SPIELMANN C KRAUSZ F STINGL A FERENCZ K TAKANO S
Citation
L. Xu et al., CONTINUOUS-WAVE MODE-LOCKED TI-SAPPHIRE LASER FOCUSABLE TO 5 X 10(13)W CM(2)/, Optics letters, 23(10), 1998, pp. 789-791
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
23
Issue
10
Year of publication
1998
Pages
789 - 791
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1998)23:10<789:CMTLFT>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
Generation of sub-10-fs pulses with an average power of 1W and a peak of 1.5 MW from a Kerr-lens mode-locked mirror-dispersion-controlled Ti :sapphire laser is demonstrated. A specially designed lens triplet foc uses the output of this compact all-solid-state source to a peak inten sity in excess of 5 x 10(13) W/cm(2). Nonperturbative nonlinear optics is now becoming feasible by use of the output of a cw mode-locked las er. (C) 1998 Optical Society of America.