FEMTOSECOND YB-YAG LASER USING SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBERS

Authors
HONNINGER C ZHANG G KELLER U GIESEN A
Citation
C. Honninger et al., FEMTOSECOND YB-YAG LASER USING SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBERS, Optics letters, 20(23), 1995, pp. 2402-2404
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
20
Issue
23
Year of publication
1995
Pages
2402 - 2404
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1995)20:23<2402:FYLUSS>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
We demonstrate a passively mode-locked femtosecond Yb:YAG laser using different semiconductor saturable absorber devices, a high-finesse and a low-finesse antiresonant Fabry-Perot saturable absorber. We achieve d pulses as short as 540 fs with dispersion compensation and 1.7-ps pu lses without dispersion compensation. We also mode locked the laser at either 1.03 or 1.05 mu m by adjusting the band gap and antiresonance wavelength design of the antiresonant Fabry-Perot saturable absorber. (C) 1995 Optical Society of America