Conference paper
Frequency-doubled diode laser for direct pumping of Ti:sapphire lasers
A single-pass frequency doubled high-power tapered diode laser emitting nearly 1.3 W of green light suitable for direct pumping of Ti:sapphire lasers generating ultrashort pulses is demonstrated. The pump efficiencies reached 75 % of the values achieved with a commercial solid-state pump laser. However, the superior electro-optical efficiency of the diode laser improves the overall efficiency of the Ti:sapphire laser by a factor > 2.
The optical spectrum emitted by the Ti:sapphire laser shows a spectral width of 112 nm (FWHM). Based on autocorrelation measurements, pulse widths of less than 20 fs are measured. These results open the opportunity of establishing diode laser pumped Ti:sapphire lasers for e.g. biophotonic applications like retinal optical coherence tomography or pumping of photonic crystal fibers for CARS microscopy.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | SPIE |
Year: | 2012 |
Pages: | 82351F-7 |
Proceedings: | SPIE Photonics West : Solid State Lasers XXI: Technology and Devices |
ISSN: | 1996756x and 0277786x |
Types: | Conference paper |
DOI: | 10.1117/12.906403 |
ORCIDs: | Jensen, Ole Bjarlin , Andersen, Peter E. and Petersen, Paul Michael |