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
fDate :
5/13/1993 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19930597
