GENERATION OF PULSES AS SHORT AS 93 FS FROM SELF-STARTING FEMTOSECONDCR-LISRALF6 LASERS BY EXPLOITING MULTIPLE-QUANTUM-WELL ABSORBERS

Authors
RIZVI NH FRENCH PMW TAYLOR JR DELFYETT PJ FLOREZ LT
Citation
Nh. Rizvi et al., GENERATION OF PULSES AS SHORT AS 93 FS FROM SELF-STARTING FEMTOSECONDCR-LISRALF6 LASERS BY EXPLOITING MULTIPLE-QUANTUM-WELL ABSORBERS, Optics letters, 18(12), 1993, pp. 983-985
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
18
Issue
12
Year of publication
1993
Pages
983 - 985
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1993)18:12<983:GOPASA>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
A Cr:LiSrAlF6 laser has been mode locked by using a multiple-quantum-w ell (MQW) absorber. With the MQW absorber inside the laser cavity, Ker r lens mode locking is initiated, yielding transform-limited pulses as short as 93 fs. Pulses of 500-fs duration have also been produced by using resonant passive mode locking with the MQW absorber in an extern al cavity.