Title :
Ultrashort pulse generation with the Ti:sapphire laser
Author :
Kartner, Franz X. ; Morgner, U. ; Cho, SeongHwan ; Chen, Yuanfeng ; Haus, H.A. ; Fujimoto, J.G. ; Ippen, Erich P ; Scheuer, V. ; Tschudi, T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. We have generated the shortest pulses to date directly from a KLM Ti:sapphire laser, with a 5.5 fs pulsewidth at 100 MHz repetition rate. This corresponds to a spectral width extending from 650 to over 1000 nm. The demonstrated spectrum at high repetition rates obtained from this source enables many applications including broadband and multiwavelength femtosecond spectroscopy, spread spectrum and WDM systems applications, as well as optical coherence tomography with sub-2 micron resolution.
Keywords :
laser mirrors; optical correlation; optical dispersion; optical pulse generation; solid lasers; titanium; 100 MHz; 5.5 fs; 650 to 1020 nm; Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/:Ti; Ti:sapphire laser; WDM systems; broadband multiwavelength femtosecond spectroscopy; double-chirped mirrors; group delay dispersion; interferometric autocorrelation; optical coherence tomography; pulse; repetition rate; spectral width; spread spectrum systems; ultrashort pulse generation; Couplings; Delay; Distortion measurement; Laser noise; Mirrors; Pulse generation; Pulse measurements; Pump lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-595-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.1999.833915
