Compact femtosecond Nd:phosphate prismless oscillator pumped by a single-mode 150-mW laser diode

Author

Agnesi, A. ; Pirzio, Federico ; Reali, G.

Author_Institution

Electron. Dept., Univ. of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We present a compact, passively mode-locked and prismless Nd:phosphate laser, pumped by a single-mode, low-power (150-mW) laser diode. We obtained self-starting 270-fs near transform-limited pulses, employing a single Gires-Tournois mirror for intracavity dispersion compensation.

Keywords

laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; neodymium; optical glass; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; phosphate glasses; solid lasers; P₂O₅Jk:Nd; compact femtosecond prismless oscillator; intracavity dispersion compensation; passive mode-locking; power 150 mW; self-starting near transform-limited pulses; single Gires-Tournois mirror; single-mode laser diode-pumped laser; time 270 fs; Diode lasers; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Lenses; Mirrors; Oscillators; Pump lasers; Ultrafast electronics; Ultrafast optics; (140.3480) Lasers, diode-pumped; (320.7090) Ultrafast lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225864