Title :
Fluoride SESAM for ultrabroadband pulse generation
Author :
Schon, S. ; Gallmann, L. ; Haiml, M. ; Keller, U.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Quantum Electron., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
Summary form only given. We have demonstrated a novel ultrabroadband SESAM based on the AlGaAs/CaF/sub 2/ material system with GaAs absorber. This device supports sub-10-fs pulse operation and, in conjunction with chirped mirrors, potentially allows for widely tunable self-starting pulses without the need for exchanging any cavity optics.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; calcium compounds; gallium arsenide; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser tuning; molecular beam epitaxial growth; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; AlGaAs-CaF/sub 2/; Bragg mirrors; Ti:sapphire gain spectrum; chirped mirrors; high-temperature layers; misfit dislocation; molecular beam epitaxy; monolithically grown SESAM; multilayer stacks; self-starting operation; semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors; temporal decay; time-resolved pump-probe; ultrabroadband pulse generation; ultrashort response times; widely tunable pulses; Bandwidth; Chirp; Coatings; Lenses; Mirrors; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optimized production technology; Pulse generation; Silver;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-662-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2001.947852
