Title :
Broadly tunable saturable absorber mode-locked Cr/sup 4+/:YAG femtosecond laser
Author :
Hayduk, M.J. ; Johns, S.T. ; Krol, M.F. ; Pollock, C.R. ; Leavitt, R.P.
Author_Institution :
Photonics Center, Rome Lab., NY, USA
Abstract :
We have demonstrated self-starting, passive mode-locking of a Cr/sup 4+/:YAG laser using a InGaAs double QW saturable absorber mirror structure. Highly stable, nearly transform limited femtosecond pulses tunable from 1488 to 1535 nm were generated.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; chromium; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; laser mirrors; laser stability; laser transitions; laser tuning; optical saturable absorption; semiconductor quantum wells; solid lasers; 1488 to 1535 nm; Cr/sup 4+/:YAG laser; InGaAs; InGaAs double QW saturable absorber mirror structure; YAG:Cr; YAl5O12:Cr; broadly tunable saturable absorber mode-locked Cr/sup 4+/:YAG femtosecond laser; highly stable nearly transform limited femtosecond pulses; laser transitions; self-starting passive mode-locking; Chromium; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse measurements; Space vector pulse width modulation; Tunable circuits and devices; Ultrafast optics; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1996. LEOS 96., IEEE
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3160-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1996.565118
