Short-pulse amplification and gain dynamics of an ArF excimer amplifier

Autor:	Andreas Tünnermann, C. Momma, H. Eichmann, H. Jacobs, Herbert Welling, B. Wellegehausen
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Optical amplifier Amplified spontaneous emission Materials science business.industry Amplifier Nonlinear optics chemistry.chemical_element Excimer Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Optics Xenon chemistry Temporal resolution Picosecond business
Zdroj:	Optics letters. 18(7)
ISSN:	0146-9592
Popis:	Subpicosecond pulses at 193 nm, generated by a nonresonant difference-frequency mixing process in xenon, have been amplified in an ArF excimer gain module to output energies of as much as 10 mJ. Investigations on the gain characteristics of the ArF excimer amplifier yield a saturation energy density of 1.9 mJ/cm(2) and a maximum small-signal gain coefficient of 0.15 cm(-1). Gain recovery measurements have been performed. A dominant gain recovery time of ~3 ns with indications of a small fast contribution in the picosecond range have been observed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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