DIODE-PUMPED MODE-LOCKED ND-GLASS LASERS WITH AN ANTIRESONANT FABRY-PEROT SATURABLE ABSORBER

Authors
KOPF D KARTNER FX KELLER U WEINGARTEN KJ
Citation
D. Kopf et al., DIODE-PUMPED MODE-LOCKED ND-GLASS LASERS WITH AN ANTIRESONANT FABRY-PEROT SATURABLE ABSORBER, Optics letters, 20(10), 1995, pp. 1169-1171
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
20
Issue
10
Year of publication
1995
Pages
1169 - 1171
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1995)20:10<1169:DMNLWA>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
We demonstrate passively mode-locked diode-pumped Nd:glass lasers with different media such as silicate, phosphate, and fluorophosphate that are homogeneously or inhomogeneously broadened. An antiresonant Fabry -Perot saturable absorber starts and stabilizes the soliton mode-locke d Nd:glass lasers, producing pulses as short as 130 fs at an average o utput power of 100 mW. With a cw Ti:sapphire pump laser we obtain puls es as short as 90 fs.