Electronically tuned picosecond Ti:sapphire laser
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A widely electronically tunable picosecond Ti:sapphire laser is demonstrated without any mechanical rotation or movement for the first time. With the second harmonics of the Nd:YAG laser as a pump source, the laser produces 10 ps pulses with a maximum output power of 350 mW. The wavelength of the self-starting ultrashort laser pulses can be rapidly and arbitrarily accessed in the region from 760 to 880 nm only by adjustment of the radio frequency of an intracavity acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) via a computer.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002