Ultrashort pulse generation from a passively mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser based system

Author

Sarukura, Nobuhiko ; Ishida, Yuzo

Author_Institution

Photo Dynamics Res. Center, Inst. of Phys. & Chem. Res., Sendai, Japan

Volume

28

Issue

10

fYear

1992

fDate

10/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2134

Lastpage

2141

Abstract

The detailed characteristics of a passively mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser using saturable absorbers are described. This laser can stably generate nearly transform-limited sub-100-fs pulses around 780 nm. Combining this oscillator and a double-pass Ti:sapphire amplifier pumped by a CW Q-switched YAG laser (3 kHz) allows fiber-grating pulse compression down to 14 fs

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; optical saturable absorption; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; 14 fs; 3 kHz; 780 nm; Al₂O₃:Ti; YAl5O12:Jk; continuous wave Q-switched YAG laser; detailed characteristics; double-pass Ti:sapphire amplifier; fiber-grating pulse compression; passively mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser based system; saturable absorbers; transform limited pulses; ultrashort pulse generation; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse generation; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse generation; Pump lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.159522

Filename

159522