Double-chirped semiconductor mirrors for dispersion compensation in femtosecond lasers

Author

Spuhler, G.J. ; Paschotta, R. ; Sutter, D.H. ; Matuschek, Nicolai ; Keller, Ulrich ; Moser, Michael ; Hovel, R. ; Scheuer, V. ; Angelow, G. ; Tschudi, T.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Quantum Electron., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

1999

fDate

28-28 May 1999

Firstpage

188

Lastpage

189

Abstract

Summary form only given. We present a double-chirped semiconductor mirror with negative dispersion in the 1035 nm to 1075 nm wavelength range. We demonstrate the first step towards fabrication of a dispersive mirror with broadband negative dispersion but without an integrated absorber. This device allowed us to generate clean 200-fs soliton pulses in a Nd:glass laser without additional dispersion compensation.

Keywords

chirp modulation; compensation; laser mirrors; optical dispersion; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; optical solitons; solid lasers; 1035 to 1075 nm; 200 fs; Nd:glass laser; broadband negative dispersion; clean 200-fs soliton pulse generation; dispersion compensation; double-chirped semiconductor mirror; double-chirped semiconductor mirrors; femtosecond lasers; negative dispersion; Chirp; Delay; Laser theory; Mirrors; Optical pulses; Optimized production technology; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Ultrafast electronics; Ultrafast optics;

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.1999.834064

Filename

834064