Building a Femtosecond Laser at Home?
Well, probably not. But after you have constructed all the SciAm and other “common” home-built lasers, it could be something to keep you occupied. 🙂 (From: Anonymous (localnet1@yahoo.com).) Info on how to build a femtosecond laser? I have had a rather strong academic interest in the field, if nothing else, on this subject for the last 10 years or so. never in that time have I seen a ‘how to’ build such a laser. if you would like to see what others have done the academic journal ‘Optics Lasers’ is your best bet, any major university library should subscribe to them, and certain articles are available via their on line archive at the Optical Society of America Web site. If on the other hand you are simply looking for background information on mode locked lasers, nowadays most systems (or at least the easiest to build systems) use a self starting mechanism and only really need: • Gain medium with sufficiently high bandwidth to support the pulses you are interested in – Ti:Sapphire and dy
