Diode-Pumped Gigahertz Repetition Rate Femtosecond Cr:Lisaf Laser

We report a low-cost, 1 GHz repetition-rate, diode-pumped, saturable Bragg reflectors mode-locked Cr:LiSAF laser, which generates nearly transform-limited 103-fs long pulses around 866 nm, with a record high peak power of 1.45 kW.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Li, Duo, Demirbas, Umit, Birge, Jonathan R., Petrich, Gale S., Kolodziejski, Leslie A., Sennaroglu, Alphan, Kaertner, Franz X., Fujimoto, James G.
Other Authors: Lincoln Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73992
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8733-2555
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1368-4002
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0828-4357