Abstract
We propose an efficient side-pumping scheme for ultraviolet (UV) femtosecond pulse amplification in micro-pulling-down (µPD) method-grown Ce:LiCAF using a prismatic cell-type configuration. By uniformly illuminating four sides of a 2-mm-diameter and 30-mm-length Brewster-cut, nearly as-grown crystal, the risk of damage is dramatically reduced. Without using a chirp pulse amplifier scheme, UV femtosecond pulse at 290 nm is amplified 4 times with no significant increase to its pulse duration and B-integral. Our results show that a laser-quality, Ce:LiCAF crystal, efficiently grown by the µPD method and pumped in a prismatic-cell type configuration paves new possibilities in providing high energy UV femtosecond pulses.
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