Title :
Self-starting soliton modelocked Ti-sapphire laser using a thin semiconductor saturable absorber
Author :
Brovelli, L.R. ; Jung, I.D. ; Kopf, D. ; Kamp, M. ; Moser, M. ; Kärtner, F.X. ; Keller, U.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Quantum Electron., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
fDate :
2/16/1995 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Using a 15 nm-thick antireflection-coated GaAs absorber layer on an AlGaAs/AlAs Bragg mirror as a nonlinear reflector, we achieved self-starting passive modelocking of a Ti-sapphire laser with 34fs pulses without Kerr lens modelocking
Keywords :
antireflection coatings; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; 34 fs; Al2O3:Ti; AlGaAs/AlAs Bragg mirror; GaAs-AlGaAs-AlAs; Ti-sapphire laser; antireflection-coated GaAs absorber layer; nonlinear reflector; optical solitons; self-starting passive modelocking; semiconductor saturable absorber; solid lasers;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19950184