Tunable Ti:Al2O3 oscillator optimized for high-repetition-rate and short pulses
Optics
2007-05-23 v1 Biological Physics
Abstract
A laser was designed and constructed with the goal of producing ultra-short pulses at a high repetition rate as needed for certain applications of multi-photon microscopy. With pure prism-based dispersion compensation repetition rates of up to 270MHz were achieved. The laser operates with hard- and soft-aperturing at the third (diverging output) and the first (parallel output) stability limits, respectively. At the third stability limit we found a pulse width of 27fs (FWHM) at 800nm central wavelength. At the first stability limit pulse widths of 23-40fs with tunability from 780nm to 920nm were reached.
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@article{arxiv.0705.2281,
title = {Tunable Ti:Al2O3 oscillator optimized for high-repetition-rate and short pulses},
author = {J. Sawinski and D. Debarre and W. Denk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.2281},
year = {2007}
}
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14 pages, 5 figures