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3.3 Femtosecond excimer lasers and their applications

Chapter Concepts

Properties beam profile; gain contrast coefficient; high-intensity radiation; optical loss; peak power; photon energy; pulse duration; relative amplitude; thermal diffusion length
Keywords Einstein coefficient; gain dynamics; nonlinearity; output pulse; pump pulse; short laser pulse; spontaneous emission
Main Subjects Femtosecond excimer lasers and their applications
Substrates gas laser

Table of Contents:

  • Femtosecond excimer lasers and their applications
    • Introduction
      • Advantages and difficulties associated with short-wavelength lasers
      • General features of dual-wavelength laser systems
      • Comparison of high-power solid-state and excimer lasers
      • Seed pulse generation
        • General features of hybrid dye/excimer lasers
        • Hybrid solid-state/excimer lasers
    • Short-pulse amplification properties of excimers
    • Critical issues for a high-power excimer amplifier
      • Nonlinear effects, attainment of minimum pulse duration (spatially evolving chirped-pulse amplification)
      • Amplification in media having nonsaturable absorption
        • ASE content, nonsaturable absorption, limitations on the cross-section
        • Off-axis amplification
        • Multiple-pass off-axis amplification schemes
        • Requirements for the discharge geometries of off-axis amplifiers
      • Limited energy storage time (interferometric multiplexing)
        • Limitations on multiple-pass amplification
        • Optical multiplexing
        • Interferometric multiplexing
      • Focusability of short-wavelength high-intensity lasers
        • Pulse front distortion, spatially dependent temporal broadening
        • Origin of phase-front distortions in dual-wavelength laser systems
        • Active spatial filtering
        • Spectral filtering
        • Optimization of off-axis amplifiers for minimum phase-front distortion
        • Beam homogenization method for short-pulse excimers
        • Focusability measurements
    • Application of short laser pulses
      • Application of short laser pulses for plasma generation
      • Micromachining of materials with subpicosecond UV pulses
    • References for 3.3

Source

Title

3.3 Femtosecond excimer lasers and their applications
In

3 Gas lasers
Author S. Szatmári, G. Marowsky, P. Simon
Affiliation
Department of Experimental Physics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary; Laser-Laboratorium Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Part of Landolt-Börnstein - Group VIII Advanced Materials and Technologies
Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology
Volume

11: Laser Systems, Part 1
Edited by G. Herziger, H. Weber, R. Poprawe
Chapter-DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-44821-1_5
Book-DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-44821-1 (Volume in Bookshelf)

Cite as

RIS-Export Szatmári, S., Marowsky, G., Simon, P.: 3.3 Femtosecond excimer lasers and their applications. Herziger, G., Weber, H., Poprawe, R. (ed.). SpringerMaterials - The Landolt-Börnstein Database (http://www.springermaterials.com). Springer-Verlag, 2007. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-44821-1_5

Abstract

3.3 Femtosecond excimer lasers and their applications in '3 Gas lasers', part of 'Landolt-Börnstein - Group VIII Advanced Materials and Technologies: Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology, Volume 11: Laser Systems, Part 1'.
This document is part of Subvolume B 'Laser Systems', Part 1 of Volume 1 'Laser Physics and Applications' of Landolt-Börnstein Group VIII 'Advanced Materials and Technologies'. It contains: 3.3.1 Introduction 3.3.1.1 Advantages and difficulties associated with short-wavelength lasers 3.3.1.2 General features of dual-wavelength laser systems 3.3.1.3 Comparison of high-power solid-state and excimer lasers 3.3.1.4 Seed pulse generation 3.3.1.4.1 General features of hybrid dye/excimer lasers 3.3.1.4.2 Hybrid solid-state/excimer lasers 3.3.2 Short-pulse amplification properties of excimers 3.3.3 Critical issues for a high-power excimer amplifier 3.3.3.1 Nonlinear effects, attainment of minimum pulse duration (spatially evolving chirped-pulse amplification) 3.3.3.2 Amplification in media having nonsaturable absorption 3.3.3.2.1 ASE content, nonsaturable absorption, limitations on the cross-section 3.3.3.2.2 Off-axis amplification 3.3.3.2.3 Multiple-pass off-axis amplification schemes 3.3.3.2.4 Requirements for the discharge geometries of off-axis amplifiers 3.3.3.3 Limited energy storage time (interferometric multiplexing) 3.3.3.3.1 Limitations on multiple-pass amplification 3.3.3.3.2 Optical multiplexing 3.3.3.3.3 Interferometric multiplexing 3.3.3.4 Focusability of short-wavelength high-intensity lasers 3.3.3.4.1 Pulse front distortion, spatially dependent temporal broadening 3.3.3.4.2 Origin of phase-front distortions in dual-wavelength laser systems 3.3.3.4.3 Active spatial filtering 3.3.3.4.4 Spectral filtering 3.3.3.4.5 Optimization of off-axis amplifiers for minimum phase-front distortion 3.3.3.4.6 Beam homogenization method for short-pulse excimers 3.3.3.4.7 Focusability measurements 3.3.4 Application of short laser pulses 3.3.4.1 Application of short laser pulses for plasma generation 3.3.4.2 Micromachining of materials with subpicosecond UV pulses References for 3.3