Magnified expansion and compression of subpicosecond pulses from a frequency-doubled Nd:YLF laser Martinez, Oscar Eduardo ; Thiagarajan, Prabhuram ; Marconi, Mario Carlos ; Rocca, Jorge J. "This work was supported by N.S.F.-CONICET U.S.A./Argentina Cooperative Science Program under Grant INT 8802563, and by the National Science Foundation under Grants ECS 870507 and ECS 8606226. M. C. Marconi was supported by a Fellowship from the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas de la Republica Argentina." Pulses from a mode-locked frequency-doubled Nd:YLF laser have been spectrally broadened and subsequently expanded to more than 200 ps and recompressed to 750 fs by grating compressors with magnifying telescopes. The new design magnifies the time delay dispersion to a factor 10 times larger than achievable with standard compressors of similar size. The design of the system and its sensitivity to the variations in the position of its optical components is analyzed. The scheme will allow efficient amplification of subpicosecond pulses in dye amplifiers. Colorado State University. Libraries 1989 text ; image application/pdf ECEmcm00021.pdf FACFECEN100433ARTI eng c1989 IEEE
Magnified expansion and compression of subpicosecond pulses from a frequency-doubled Nd:YLF laser
Martinez, Oscar Eduardo ; Thiagarajan, Prabhuram ; Marconi, Mario Carlos ; Rocca, Jorge J.
"This work was supported by N.S.F.-CONICET U.S.A./Argentina Cooperative Science Program under Grant INT 8802563, and by the National Science Foundation under Grants ECS 870507 and ECS 8606226. M. C. Marconi was supported by a Fellowship from the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas de la Republica Argentina."
Pulses from a mode-locked frequency-doubled Nd:YLF laser have been spectrally broadened and subsequently expanded to more than 200 ps and recompressed to 750 fs by grating compressors with magnifying telescopes. The new design magnifies the time delay dispersion to a factor 10 times larger than achievable with standard compressors of similar size. The design of the system and its sensitivity to the variations in the position of its optical components is analyzed. The scheme will allow efficient amplification of subpicosecond pulses in dye amplifiers.
Colorado State University. Libraries
1989
text ; image
application/pdf
ECEmcm00021.pdf
FACFECEN100433ARTI
eng
c1989 IEEE