Tunable, high-power, subpicosecond blue-green dye laser system with a two-stage dye amplifier

A two-stage dye amplifier design has been developed to amplify tunable, blue-green, subpicosecond dye laser pulses which are generated from a hybrid synchronously mode-locked dye oscillator directly (800 fs) or shorter to 200 fs by a fiber compressor stage. This system has achieved single pulse ener...

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Veröffentlicht in:	IEEE journal of quantum electronics 1991-05, Vol.27 (5), p.1221-1227
Hauptverfasser:	Sharp, T.E., Dane, C.B., Barber, D., Tittel, F.K., Wisoff, P.J., Szabo, G.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Dye lasers Exact sciences and technology Fiber lasers Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications) Hybrid power systems Laser mode locking Lasers Optical design Optical pulse generation Optics Oscillators Physics Pulse amplifiers Pulse compression methods Synchronous generators Tunable circuits and devices
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Zusammenfassung:	A two-stage dye amplifier design has been developed to amplify tunable, blue-green, subpicosecond dye laser pulses which are generated from a hybrid synchronously mode-locked dye oscillator directly (800 fs) or shorter to 200 fs by a fiber compressor stage. This system has achieved single pulse energies of 2 mJ, with an amplified spontaneous emission content of less than 0.1%. Using 40 mJ of the third-harmonic output of an Nd:YAG regenerative amplifier to pump the dye amplifier system, these pulse energies represent an energy extraction efficiency of approximately 5%. The tunability, stability, and spatial and temporal quality of the output pulses from the system have also been characterized.< >
ISSN:	0018-9197 1558-1713
DOI:	10.1109/3.83380