Abstract
In conventional femtosecond solid-state lasers, the intracavity prism pair imposes a severe constraint on the resonator length, and thus on the maximum achievable pulse repetition rate. This constraint can be eliminated by using chirped dielectric mirrors1 for both feedback and intracavity dispersion control. Drawing on this concept a new generation of compact, high-repetition-rate Kerr-lens mode-locked (KLM) lasers can be developed.
© 1996 Optical Society of America
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