300 nm tunability of 30-fs Ti:sapphire laser pulses with a single set of double-chirped mirrors

Author

Sutter, D.H. ; Jung, I.D. ; Matuschek, N. ; Morier-Genoud, F. ; Kartner, F.X. ; Keller, U. ; Scheuer, V. ; Tilsch, M. ; Tschudi, T.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Quantum Electron., Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

334

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report on novel double-chirped mirrors (DCMs) that offer center wavelength tunability of 30-fs pulses between 700 and 1000 nm. Self-starting has been achieved by employing broadband semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs). Previously, we demonstrated 6.5-fs pulses using DCMs in combination with a prism pair for dispersion compensation. In this paper, we demonstrate widely tunable pulses from the same resonator with newly fabricated broadband DCMs. The cavity consists of a thin Ti:sapphire crystal.

Keywords

chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; laser mirrors; laser tuning; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; 30 fs; 300 nm; broadband semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors; center wavelength tunability; dispersion compensation; double-chirped mirrors; fs Ti:sapphire laser pulses; fs pulses; laser resonator; prism pair; thin Ti:sapphire crystal; widely tunable pulses; Bandwidth; Chirp; Mirrors; Optical pulses; Pulse generation; Pulse measurements; Pump lasers; Solid lasers; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.676254

Filename

676254