Title :
Widely-tunable femtosecond operation of Cr:LiSAF lasers using broadband saturable Bragg reflectors
Author :
Demirbas, Umit ; Petrich, Gale S. ; Nabanja, Sheila ; Birge, Jonathan R. ; Kolodziejski, Leslie A. ; Kärtner, Franz X. ; Fujimoto, James G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
We describe a low-cost diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser, mode-locked using a broadband saturable Bragg reflector. The laser produces continuously tunable sub-200-fs pulses from 800 nm to 905 nm.
Keywords :
Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Laser tuning; Mirrors; Pump lasers; Semiconductor diodes; Tellurium; Tunable circuits and devices; Ultrafast electronics; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
