Picosecond-pulse amplification with an external passive optical cavity

被引:36
作者
Potma, EO
Evans, C
Xie, XS
Jones, RJ
Ye, J
机构
[1] Harvard Univ, Dept Chem & Chem Biol, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[2] Natl Inst Stand & Technol, JILA, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[3] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
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D O I
10.1364/OL.28.001835
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O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We experimentally demonstrate the amplification of picosecond pulses at high repetition rates through the coherent addition of successive pulses of a mode-locked pulse train in a high-finesse optical cavity equipped with cavity dumping. Amplification greater than 30 times is obtained at a repetition rate of 253 kHz, boosting the 5.3-nJ pulses from a commercial mode-locked picosecond Ti:sapphire laser to pulse energies of more than 150 nJ. (C) 2003 Optical Society of America.
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页码:1835 / 1837
页数:3
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