High-repetition-rate high-power femtosecond ArF laser source
- 15 October 1994
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 19 (20), 1639-1641
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.19.001639
Abstract
170-fs, 0.8-μJ optical pulses at 193 nm generated by frequency quadrupling of high-power Ti:sapphire laser pulses are amplified in an ArF gain module. Double-pass amplification at a 400-Hz repetition rate resulted in 290-mW average power with pulse durations of ~ 300 fs.Keywords
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