TY - JOUR
T1 - Amplification of ultraviolet femtosecond pulse by a micro-pulling down method-grown ce:LiCAF crystal in a prismatic cell-type, side-pumping configuration
AU - Gabayno, Jacque Lynn
AU - Cadatal-Raduban, Marilou
AU - Pham, Minh
AU - Yamanoi, Kohei
AU - Estacio, Elmer
AU - Garcia, Wilson
AU - Nakazato, Tomoharu
AU - Shimizu, Toshihiko
AU - Sarukura, Nobuhiko
AU - Suyama, Toshihisa
AU - Fukuda, Kentaro
AU - Kim, Kyoung Jin
AU - Yoshikawa, Akira
AU - Saito, Fumio
PY - 2009/12
Y1 - 2009/12
N2 - We propose an efficient side-pumping scheme for ultraviolet (UV) femtosecond pulse amplification in micro-pulling-down (mPD) methodgrown Ce:LiCAF using a prismatic cell-type configuration. By uniformly illuminating four sides of a 2-mm-diameter and 30-mm-length Brewster-cut, nearly as-grown crystal, the risk of damage is dramatically reduced. Without using a chirp pulse amplifier scheme, UV femtosecond pulse at 290nm is amplified 4 times with no significant increase to its pulse duration and B-integral. Our results show that a laser-quality, Ce:LiCAF crystal, efficiently grown by the μPD method and pumped in a prismatic-cell type configuration paves new possibilities in providing high energy UV femtosecond pulses.
AB - We propose an efficient side-pumping scheme for ultraviolet (UV) femtosecond pulse amplification in micro-pulling-down (mPD) methodgrown Ce:LiCAF using a prismatic cell-type configuration. By uniformly illuminating four sides of a 2-mm-diameter and 30-mm-length Brewster-cut, nearly as-grown crystal, the risk of damage is dramatically reduced. Without using a chirp pulse amplifier scheme, UV femtosecond pulse at 290nm is amplified 4 times with no significant increase to its pulse duration and B-integral. Our results show that a laser-quality, Ce:LiCAF crystal, efficiently grown by the μPD method and pumped in a prismatic-cell type configuration paves new possibilities in providing high energy UV femtosecond pulses.
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U2 - 10.1143/JJAP.48.120213
DO - 10.1143/JJAP.48.120213
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:75149129965
SN - 0021-4922
VL - 48
JO - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
JF - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
IS - 12
M1 - 120213
ER -