Title :
77 GHz soliton modelocked Nd:YVO4 laser
Author :
Krainer, L. ; Paschotta, R. ; Moser, M. ; Keller, U.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Quantum Electron., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
fDate :
10/26/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
An Nd:YVO4 laser which was passively modelocked at the very high repetition rate of ~77 GHz, using a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM), is demonstrated. The soliton-like pulses are well separated in time and their duration is 2.7 ps. The required negative dispersion is introduced by a GTI-like structure, which is formed by the gain medium and the SESAM
Keywords :
laser beams; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; neodymium; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; solid lasers; yttrium compounds; 2.7 ps; 77 GHz; GTI-like structure; Nd:YVO4 laser; YVO4:Nd; gain medium; negative dispersion; passively modelocked laser; pulse duration; pulse separation; repetition rate; semiconductor saturable absorber mirror; soliton modelocked laser; soliton-like pulses;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20001289
