title: Ultraviolet short pulses from an all-solid-state Ce:LiCAF master-oscillator power-amplifier system.
abstract: We have developed an all-solid-state master-oscillator-power-amplifier system employing Ce:LiCAF, a new degradation-free tunable ultraviolet laser medium pumped by the fourth harmonic of conventional 10-ns Q -switched Nd:YAG lasers. The low- Q , short-cavity Ce:LiCAF master oscillator produced a satellite-free 1-ns pulse under appropriate pumping-fluence control. 18% energy extraction with sufficient gain was achieved in a single-stage, confocal, double-pass amplifier. As a result, 289-nm, 1-ns, 14-mJ pulses were efficiently obtained from this simple laser system.
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authors.lastname: Sarukura
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authors.lastname: Liu
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authors.lastname: Ohtake
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authors.lastname: Segawa
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authors.lastname: Dubinskii
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authors.lastname: Semashko
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authors.lastname: Naumov
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authors.lastname: Korableva
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authors.initials: RY
authors.lastname: Abdulsabirov