Re: what diagnostics to use

Posted by Christian Soeller on
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Search the CONFOCAL archive at http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal If you find it hard to follow the manual I recommend you either:

1) Find somebody at your university who has experience in tuning Ti:S lasers, perhaps your physics department might be a good start (or visit a group at a nearby university who work with Ti:S lasers)

or

2) You contact your support engineer (presumably from Coherent) to give you/somebody in charge of the instrument a good introduction on how to tune the instrument

From then on it is practice, practice, ...

A final thought, perhaps there are some training courses out there that others know of?

Best of luck,

Christian

On 5/09/2007, at 12:55 AM, Shalin Mehta wrote:

Search the CONFOCAL archive at http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal Thanks all for reply.

Given that we provide 1/2 hour for laser to settle is it reasonable to expect that one can tune the laser thrice a day for different users and still it works fine? Autocorrelator is too costly for time being but we do have a spectrum analyzer. Upto now, the optical setups have been aligned with aid of only the spectrum analyzer.

Is there a good application note/ reading available that explains the light-path of MIRA 900 (both picosecond and femtosecond configurations) in context of Kerr Lens Modelocking? - I don't know about either. Also some 'protocol' of tuning will be great. We have a manual from Coherent, but I am finding it hard to follow.

Regards
Shalin

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