Mode-locked Nd:YAlO/sub 3/ laser on the ground-state transition

Author

Kellner, T. ; Heine, Frank ; Huber, Gunter ; Honninger, Clemens ; Braun, B. ; Morier-Genoud, Francois ; Moser, Michael ; Keller, Ulrich

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Laser-Phys., Hamburg Univ., Germany

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

160

Lastpage

161

Abstract

Summary form only given. Mode-locking of the ground-state transition in neodymium-doped laser hosts in combination with external frequency doubling is a possibility to realize a coherent blue-light source in the blue spectral region. Therefore we made an investigation of the mode-locking properties of a Nd:YAlO/sub 3/ laser on the ground-state transition. We observed nearly transform-limited solitonlike pulses as short as /spl Delta//spl tau/=1.9 ps. Soliton mode-locking was achieved by introducing a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) and a Gires-Tournois-Interferometer (GTI) into the cavity.

Keywords

ground states; laser mode locking; laser transitions; neodymium; optical solitons; solid lasers; 1.9 ps; Gires-Tournois-Interferometer; Nd:YAlO/sub 3/ laser; YAlO/sub 3/:Nd; coherent blue light source; ground state transition; mode locking; semiconductor saturable absorber mirror; soliton pulse generation; Laser mode locking; Laser transitions; Mirrors; Neodymium; Optical pulse generation; Optimized production technology; Power generation; Power lasers; Semiconductor diodes; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.675998

Filename

675998