Fluoride SESAM for ultrabroadband pulse generation

Author

Schon, S. ; Gallmann, L. ; Haiml, M. ; Keller, U.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

314

Lastpage

315

Abstract

Summary form only given. We have demonstrated a novel ultrabroadband SESAM based on the AlGaAs/CaF/sub 2/ material system with GaAs absorber. This device supports sub-10-fs pulse operation and, in conjunction with chirped mirrors, potentially allows for widely tunable self-starting pulses without the need for exchanging any cavity optics.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; calcium compounds; gallium arsenide; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser tuning; molecular beam epitaxial growth; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; AlGaAs-CaF/sub 2/; Bragg mirrors; Ti:sapphire gain spectrum; chirped mirrors; high-temperature layers; misfit dislocation; molecular beam epitaxy; monolithically grown SESAM; multilayer stacks; self-starting operation; semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors; temporal decay; time-resolved pump-probe; ultrabroadband pulse generation; ultrashort response times; widely tunable pulses; Bandwidth; Chirp; Coatings; Lenses; Mirrors; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optimized production technology; Pulse generation; Silver;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.947852

Filename

947852