• DocumentCode
    2987406
  • Title

    Novel inverse saturable absorption for improved passive mode locking

  • Author

    Grange, R. ; Haiml, M. ; Paschotta, R. ; Spiihler, G.J. ; Krainer, L. ; Keller, U. ; Ostinelli, O.

  • Author_Institution
    Phys. Dept., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-27 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    2082
  • Abstract
    Inverse saturable absorption stronger than two-photon absorption is observed in 1.5-μm semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) measured with pulse durations of 190 fs to 20 ps and repetition rates of 60 MHz to 10 GHz.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; mirrors; optical saturable absorption; 1.5 mum; 120 fs to 20 ps; 60 MHz to 10 GHz; inverse saturable absorption; passive mode locking; semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors; two-photon absorption; Absorption; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Indium phosphide; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Optical pulses; Physics; Pulse measurements; Reflectivity; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-795-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2005.202375
  • Filename
    1573441