• DocumentCode
    758587
  • 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
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    2/16/1995 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    287
  • Lastpage
    289
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19950184
  • Filename
    375840
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=758587