Ultrashort pulse generation with the Ti:sapphire laser

Author

Kartner, Franz X. ; Morgner, U. ; Cho, SeongHwan ; Chen, Yuanfeng ; Haus, H.A. ; Fujimoto, J.G. ; Ippen, Erich P ; Scheuer, V. ; Tschudi, T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

28-28 May 1999

Firstpage

83

Abstract

Summary form only given. We have generated the shortest pulses to date directly from a KLM Ti:sapphire laser, with a 5.5 fs pulsewidth at 100 MHz repetition rate. This corresponds to a spectral width extending from 650 to over 1000 nm. The demonstrated spectrum at high repetition rates obtained from this source enables many applications including broadband and multiwavelength femtosecond spectroscopy, spread spectrum and WDM systems applications, as well as optical coherence tomography with sub-2 micron resolution.

Keywords

laser mirrors; optical correlation; optical dispersion; optical pulse generation; solid lasers; titanium; 100 MHz; 5.5 fs; 650 to 1020 nm; Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/:Ti; Ti:sapphire laser; WDM systems; broadband multiwavelength femtosecond spectroscopy; double-chirped mirrors; group delay dispersion; interferometric autocorrelation; optical coherence tomography; pulse; repetition rate; spectral width; spread spectrum systems; ultrashort pulse generation; Couplings; Delay; Distortion measurement; Laser noise; Mirrors; Pulse generation; Pulse measurements; Pump lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1999.833915

Filename

833915