Diode-pumped passively mode-locked 1.3 /spl mu/m Nd:YVO/sub 4/ and Nd:YLF lasers using semiconductor saturable absorbers

Author

Fluck, R. ; Zhang, Ge ; Keller, Ulrich ; Weingarten, Kurt J. ; Moser, Michael

Author_Institution

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

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

136

Lastpage

137

Abstract

Summary form only given. We have demonstrated self-starting passively mode-locked Nd:LiYF/sub 4/ at 1313 nm and 1321 nm and Nd:YVO/sub 4/ at 1342 nm using semiconductor saturable absorbers. Pulses as short as 4.6-ps durations were achieved with Nd:YVO/sub 4/ and 5.7 ps with Nd:LiYF/sub 4/. Passive mode locking was achieved using either a high-finesse or low-finesse antiresonant Fabry-Perot saturable absorber design.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; high-speed optical techniques; infrared sources; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser transitions; lithium compounds; neodymium; optical pumping; optical saturable absorption; solid lasers; yttrium compounds; Nd:YLF lasers; Nd:YVO/sub 4/ lasers; diode-pumped passively mode-locked lasers; high-finesse; ps pulse durations; self-starting passively mode-locked lasers; semiconductor saturable absorbers; Apertures; Ear; Equations; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Mirrors; Refractive index; Semiconductor diodes; Semiconductor lasers; Steady-state;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-443-2

Type

conf

Filename

864466