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