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.

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Main Authors: Li, Duo (Contributor), Demirbas, Umit (Contributor), Birge, Jonathan R. (Contributor), Petrich, Gale S. (Contributor), Kolodziejski, Leslie A. (Contributor), Sennaroglu, Alphan (Contributor), Kaertner, Franz X. (Contributor), Fujimoto, James G. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Lincoln Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-10-15T19:50:36Z.
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