High-repetition-rate femtosecond dye amplifier using a laser-diode-pumped neodymium:YAG laser

Technical Report · Mon Feb 06 00:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:5481636

Zysset, B; LaGasse, M J; Fujimoto, J G; Kafka, J D

A high-repetition-rate femotosecond dye amplifier is demonstrated using a laser-diode-pumped Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. Amplification of wavelength-tunable 300-fs pulses from a synchronously mode-locked rhodamine dye laser is achieved with a saturated gain of 70 and a small gain of 200 at a repetition rate of 800 Hz. Maximum pulse energies of 40 nJ are obtained, and pulse compression to as short as 30 fs is demonstrated.

• Research Organization: Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (USA). Research Lab. of Electronics
• OSTI ID: 5481636
• Report Number(s): AD-A-209058/7/XAB
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Pub. in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 54, No. 6, 496-498(6 Feb 1989)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
AMPLIFIERS
PULSE TECHNIQUES
SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES
OPTICAL PUMPING
SOLID STATE LASERS
DYE LASERS
Q-SWITCHING
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT
LASERS
LIQUID LASERS
PUMPING
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
420800* - Engineering- Electronic Circuits & Devices- (-1989)
420300 - Engineering- Lasers- (-1989)