• DocumentCode
    901872
  • Title

    Self-starting femtosecond Tl:sapphire laser with intracavity multiquantum well absorber

  • Author

    Mellish, R. ; French, P.M.W. ; Taylor, J.R. ; Delfyett, P.J. ; Florez, L.T.

  • Author_Institution
    Imperial Coll. of Sci. & Technol., London, UK
  • Volume
    29
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    1993
  • fDate
    5/13/1993 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    894
  • Lastpage
    896
  • Abstract
    A titanium-doped sapphire laser has been modelocked using an intracavity multiquantum well absorber. Stable transform-limited pulses as short as 130 fs have been generated.
  • Keywords
    laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical saturable absorption; sapphire; solid lasers; thallium; 130 fs; Al 2O 3:Tl laser; MQW absorber; Tl:sapphire laser; femtosecond pulses; intracavity multiquantum well absorber; laser pulse generation; modelocked; self-starting; stable optical pulses; transform-limited pulses;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19930597
  • Filename
    216298