Tunable picosecond Er:Yb:glass laser with 10 GHz repetition rate

Author

Krainer, L. ; Paschotta, R. ; Keller, Ulrich ; Spuhler, G.J. ; Klimov, Igor ; Teisset, Catherine Y. ; Weingarten, Kurt J.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

55

Abstract

Summary from only given. We demonstrate an Er,Yb:glass laser which produces picosecond pulses at repetition rate of 10.67 GHz, a center wavelength of 1534 nm and an average output power of up to 15 mW. We obtained nearly transform-limited pulse durations (time-bandwidth product <0.47) of 3.8 ps and 16.8 ps with different laser parameters.

Keywords

erbium; laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical pulse generation; solid lasers; ytterbium; 15 mW; 1534 nm; 16.8 ps; 3.8 ps; Er:Yb:glass laser; average output power; laser parameters; laser pulse; laser tuning; microwave drive signal; mode-locking operation; nearly transform-limited pulse durations; passive mode locking; picosecond pulses; repetition rate; time-bandwidth product; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Laser tuning; Masers; Mirrors; Optical pulses; Power generation; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1033426

Filename

1033426