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  • Editors: Andrew Dunn and Anthony Durkin
  • Vol. 6, Iss. 1 — Jan. 3, 2011

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A sub-100fs self-starting Cr:forsterite laser generating 1.4W output power

Shih-Hsuan Chia, Tzu-Ming Liu, Anatoly A. Ivanov, Andrey B. Fedotov, Aleksey M. Zheltikov, Ming-Rung Tsai, Ming-Che Chan, Che-Hang Yu, and Chi-Kuang Sun  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 23, pp. 24085-24091 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.024085


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Abstract

Without cavity dumping or external amplification, we report a femtosecond Cr:forsterite laser with a 1.4W output power and 2W in continuous wave (CW) operated with a crystal temperature of 267K. In the femtosecond regime, the oscillator generates Kerr-lens-mode-locked 84fs pulses with a repetition rate of 85MHz, corresponding to a high 16.5nJ pulse energy directly from a single Cr:forsterite resonator. This intense femtosecond Cr:forsterite laser is ideal to pump varieties of high power fiber light sources and could be thus ideal for many biological and spectroscopy applications.

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OCIS Codes
(140.3580) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, solid-state
(320.7090) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast lasers

ToC Category:
Lasers and Laser Optics

History
Original Manuscript: August 5, 2010
Revised Manuscript: September 26, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: October 5, 2010
Published: November 3, 2010

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Vol. 6, Iss. 1 Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics

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Shih-Hsuan Chia, Tzu-Ming Liu, Anatoly A. Ivanov, Andrey B. Fedotov, Aleksey M. Zheltikov, Ming-Rung Tsai, Ming-Che Chan, Che-Hang Yu, and Chi-Kuang Sun, "A sub-100fs self-starting Cr:forsterite laser generating 1.4W output power," Opt. Express 18, 24085-24091 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/vjbo/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-23-24085


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