Actively mode-locked directly diode-pumped CW room-temperature Cr/sup 4+/:YAG laser

Author

Naumov, S. ; Sorokin, E. ; Sorokina, I.T.

Author_Institution

Photonics Inst., Technische Univ. Wien, Vienna, Austria

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

340

Lastpage

341

Abstract

Summary form only given. Cr/sup 4+/-doped crystals attract attention of researchers since late 80s due to their capability to operate at wavelength around 1.5 /spl mu/m and produce broadly tunable ultrashort pulses. Compact actively mode-locked sources of tunable picosecond pulses are especially interesting for testing fibers in telecommunications. We report, what is to our knowledge the first demonstration of the acousto-optical CW mode-locking of the directly diode-pumped Cr/sup 4+/:YAG laser at room temperature.

Keywords

acousto-optical modulation; chromium; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; solid lasers; 1.5 micron; Brewster-cut acousto-optic modulator; CW room-temperature laser; Cr/sup 4+/:YAG laser; YAG:Cr; YAl5O12:Cr; acousto-optical mode-locking; active mode-locking; broadly tunable ultrashort pulses; directly diode-pumped laser; Chromium; Diodes; Laser mode locking; Optimized production technology; Power generation; Power lasers; Pulse modulation; Pump lasers; Tunable circuits and devices; Ultrafast optics;

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.2001.947887

Filename

947887