Ultrashort-pulse Ti:sapphire laser system pumped by frequency-doubled Nd:glass lasers

James D. Bonlie; Dwight F. Price; Alan Sullivan; William E. White

doi:10.1117/12.239699

8 May 1996 Ultrashort-pulse Ti:sapphire laser system pumped by frequency-doubled Nd:glass lasers

James D. Bonlie, Dwight F. Price, Alan Sullivan, William E. White

Proceedings Volume 2701, Generation, Amplification, and Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses III; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.239699
Event: Photonics West '96, 1996, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

We report on the development of a Chirped Pulse Amplification system in which the final amplifier is a large Ti:Sapphire disk pumped by a frequency doubled Nd:Glass laser. Using this amplifier we have produced near diffraction limited 120 fs pulses with energies in excess of 1 J. Focusing of these pulses results in peak irradiances exceeding 5 X 10¹⁹ W/cm². The scalability of this amplifier to the 10 - 20 J level is also discussed.

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James D. Bonlie, Dwight F. Price, Alan Sullivan, and William E. White "Ultrashort-pulse Ti:sapphire laser system pumped by frequency-doubled Nd:glass lasers", Proc. SPIE 2701, Generation, Amplification, and Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses III, (8 May 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.239699

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