Title :
Low-loss broadband SESAMs for mode locked lasers
Author :
Zhigang Zhang ; Nakagawa, T. ; Torizuka, K. ; Sugaya, T. ; Itatani, T. ; Takada, H. ; Takahashi, H. ; Kobayashi, K.
Author_Institution :
New Energy & Ind. Technol. Dev. Organ., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
Summary form only given. The semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) are now well developed and broadly used in various self-starting mode locked solid state lasers. For the SESAM operating at the wavelength of Ti:sapphire lasers, the bottom mirror can be a AlAs-AlGaAs Bragg reflector that has a moderate bandwidth. We describe here the details of this new design for the SESAMs operating at 1300 nm and 800 nm, and discuss the performance of the mode locked lasers with these SESAMs.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; mirrors; optical losses; optical saturable absorption; reflectivity; solid lasers; 1300 nm; 800 nm; AlAs-AlGaAs; AlAs-AlGaAs Bragg reflector; Ti:sapphire lasers; bottom mirror; low-loss broadband SESAMs; mode locked lasers; moderate bandwidth; self-starting mode locked solid state lasers; semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors; Admittance; Bandwidth; Dispersion; Gold; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Optical films; Optical reflection; Optimized production technology; Semiconductor lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-595-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.1999.834065
