Self-starting mode locking and Kerr-lens mode locking of a Ti : Al2O3 laser by use of semiconductor-doped glass structures

Authors
Bilinsky, IP Prasankumar, RP Fujimoto, JG
Citation
Ip. Bilinsky et al., Self-starting mode locking and Kerr-lens mode locking of a Ti : Al2O3 laser by use of semiconductor-doped glass structures, J OPT SOC B, 16(4), 1999, pp. 546-549
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Optics & Acoustics
Journal title
JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS
ISSN journal
07403224 → ACNP
Volume
16
Issue
4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
546 - 549
Database
ISI
SICI code
0740-3224(199904)16:4<546:SMLAKM>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
We report a novel wedge-shaped saturable absorber structure based on commer cial semiconductor-doped glasses. By use of several different semiconductor -doped glasses, fast saturable absorber passive mode locking of a Ti:Al2O3 laser was demonstrated, which generated pulse durations as short as 2 ps in the 780-860-nm range. These saturable absorbers were also used to start Ke rr-lens mode locking, and transform-limited 52-fs pulses were generated. Ph otodarkening effects in the semiconductor-doped glasses have been observed and characterized on a femtosecond time scale. (C) 1999 Optical Society of America [S0740-3224(99)01204-7] OCIS codes: 140.3580, 140.3590, 140.4050.