Self-starting 6.5-fs pulses from a Ti:Sapphire laser

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作者：

Jung, ID ^{[1
]}

Kartner, FX ^{[1
]}

Matuschek, N ^{[1
]}

Sutter, DH ^{[1
]}

MorierGenoud, F ^{[1
]}

Zhang, G ^{[1
]}

Keller, U ^{[1
]}

Scheuer, V ^{[1
]}

Tilsch, M ^{[1
]}

Tschudi, T ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] TH DARMSTADT,INST PHYS APPL,D-64289 DARMSTADT,GERMANY

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 1997年 / 22卷 / 13期

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D O I：

10.1364/OL.22.001009

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We demonstrate self-starting 6.5-fs pulses from a Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser with 200-mW average output power at a pulse repetition rate of approximate to 86 MHz. This is to our knowledge the shortest pulse ever generated directly from a laser. For dispersion compensation we used a prism pair in combination with double-chirped mirrors, which balances the higher-order dispersion of the prism pair and therefore flattens the average total group-delay dispersion in the laser cavity. For self-starting mode locking we used a broadband semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror. (C) 1997 Optical Society of America.

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页码：1009 / 1011

页数：3

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