TUNABLE PICOSECOND UV-SOURCE AT 10-KHZ BASED ON AN ALL-SOLID-STATE DIODE-PUMPED LASER SYSTEM

Authors
BALEMBOIS F GAIGNET M LOURADOUR F COUDERC V BARTHELEMY A GEORGES P BRUN A
Citation
F. Balembois et al., TUNABLE PICOSECOND UV-SOURCE AT 10-KHZ BASED ON AN ALL-SOLID-STATE DIODE-PUMPED LASER SYSTEM, Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics, 65(2), 1997, pp. 255-258
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied",Optics
Journal title
Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
09462171
Volume
65
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
255 - 258
Database
ISI
SICI code
0946-2171(1997)65:2<255:TPUA1B>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
We present a diode-pumped laser system producing tunable picosecond pu lses in the ultraviolet (UV) between 273 and 286 nm, with a maximum en ergy of 0.14 mu J at 277nm. The source, operating at high repetition r ate (10 kHz), is based on a diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF oscillator and on a Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier excited by a frequency-doubled Q-sw itched diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser. The amplified pulses were frequency -converted in the blue and in the UV by harmonic generation (doubling and tripling) in two lithium triborate (LBO) crystals.