High-energy femtosecond Cr4+: forsterite oscillators and their applications in biomedical and material sciences Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We have designed and successfully developed a long-cavity Cr4+:forsterite femtosecond oscillator, which delivers < 40 fs pulses with an energy per pulse of over 15 nJ. Complete self-starting is demonstrated. Ablation and phase transformations of semiconductor materials are achieved by the tight focusing of the laser output using a microscope objective. It is also demonstrated that Cr4+:forsterite has significant advantages over Ti: sapphire for multiphoton fluorescence and coherent non-linear optical microscopy.

published proceedings

  • APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS

author list (cited authors)

  • Yakovlev, V. V., Ivanov, A., & Shcheslavskiy, V.

citation count

  • 18

complete list of authors

  • Yakovlev, VV||Ivanov, A||Shcheslavskiy, V

publication date

  • June 2002