Title :
Silicon-germanium saturable absorber mirrors
Author :
Grawert, F.J. ; Akiyama, S. ; Gopinath, J.T. ; Ilday, F.O. ; Liu, J. ; Shen, H. ; Wada, K. ; Kimerling, L.C. ; Ippen, E.P. ; Kaertner, F.X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
A silicon-germanium ultra-broadband saturable Bragg reflector with sub-picosecond recovery time is fabricated. Its performance is demonstrated by mode-locking an Er-Yb glass laser generating 220 fs pulses spanning the C-band of the optical communication range.
Keywords :
erbium; germanium; laser mode locking; mirrors; optical fabrication; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; silicon; solid lasers; ytterbium; 220 fs; C-band; Er-Yb glass laser; Si-Ge; SiO2:Er, Yb; mode-locking; optical communication range; pulse generation; silicon-germanium saturable absorber mirrors; silicon-germanium ultrabroadband saturable Bragg reflector; subpicosecond recovery time; Absorption; Germanium silicon alloys; Laser feedback; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Optical pulse generation; Optical scattering; Pulse measurements; Silicon germanium; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8557-8
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363449
