A dual wavelength SBR-modelocked Ti:sapphire laser

Author

White, S.J. ; Hopkins, J.-M. ; Mazilu, M. ; Miller, A. ; Knox, W.H.

Author_Institution

J.F. Allen Phys. Res. Labs., St. Andrews Univ., UK

fYear

2000

fDate

7-12 May 2000

Firstpage

395

Lastpage

396

Abstract

Summary form only given.We have incorporated two saturable-Bragg-reflectors (SBRs) into a dual-cavity mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser for the first time to our knowledge creating a stable, self-starting, independently tunable, two-color femtosecond source. The SBR mode-locking has allowed us to investigate the pulse-to-pulse coupling of the two laser cavities via the nonlinear interaction in the laser crystal. This laser source has immediate applications in nondegenerate pump-probe spectroscopy.

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; optical saturation; sapphire; solid lasers; spectroscopic light sources; titanium; dual wavelength SBR-modelocked Ti:sapphire laser; dual-cavity mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser; laser cavities; laser crystal; nondegenerate pump-probe spectroscopy; nonlinear interaction; pulse-to-pulse coupling; saturable-Bragg-reflectors; stable self-starting independently tunable two-color femtosecond source; Fiber gratings; Gaussian processes; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2000. (CLEO 2000). Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-634-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2000.907167

Filename

907167