• DocumentCode
    521291
  • Title

    Widely-tunable femtosecond operation of Cr:LiSAF lasers using broadband saturable Bragg reflectors

  • Author

    Demirbas, Umit ; Petrich, Gale S. ; Nabanja, Sheila ; Birge, Jonathan R. ; Kolodziejski, Leslie A. ; Kärtner, Franz X. ; Fujimoto, James G.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We describe a low-cost diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser, mode-locked using a broadband saturable Bragg reflector. The laser produces continuously tunable sub-200-fs pulses from 800 nm to 905 nm.
  • Keywords
    Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Laser tuning; Mirrors; Pump lasers; Semiconductor diodes; Tellurium; Tunable circuits and devices; Ultrafast electronics; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5500907