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Series in Quantum Electronics
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Vol. 58 Clara J. Saraceno, Cutting-edge High-power
Ultrafast Oscillators: Pushing the Limits of SESAM
Modelocked 1st edition 2013. XXVI, 168 pages, € 64,00. ISBN 978-3-86628-458-6 |
A growing
number of applications in science and industry are currently pushing the
development of reliable ultrafast laser technologies that enable high average
powers. SESAM modelocked thin disk lasers (TDLs) currently achieve higher pulse
energies and average powers than any other ultrafast oscillator technology,
making them excellent candidates in this goal. During this thesis, the
frontiers of this technology both in terms of average power and pulse duration
were pushed to new records. On the one hand, 275 W of average power were
demonstrated with a pulse duration of 583 fs, which represents the highest
average power so far demonstrated from an ultrafast oscillator. In addition,
another major milestone was achieved, with the demonstration of a TDL with
nearly bandwidth-limited 96-fs long pulses. The progress achieved in terms of
pulse duration of such sources enabled the first measurement of the
carrier-envelope offset frequency of a modelocked TDL, which is the first key
step towards full stabilization of such a source. The cutting-edge sources
developed during the timeframe of this thesis will enable exciting new
applications, and open the door to further extending the current performance
milestones.
About the author:
Clara J. Saraceno received the Dipl.Ing. and M.S. degrees from the
Insititut d’Optique Graduate School, Palaiseau, France, in September 2007. She
joined the Institute of Quantum Electronics at ETH Zurich one year later in
2008, after one year in the R&D Department of the Ultrafast Division
(Research Laser Systems, RLS), Coherent, Inc., Santa Clara, CA. Her current
research interests include high-power ultrafast modelocked oscillators and
their application to drive nonlinear optics and strong field physics
experiments.
Keywords: ultrafast oscillators, SESAM modelocked
thin disk lasers, high-power
ultrafast modelocked oscillators.
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