Fast quantum-dot saturable absorber for passive mode-locking of solid-state lasers

被引：90

作者：

Rafailov, EU ^{[1
]}

White, SJ

Lagatsky, AA

Miller, A

Sibbett, W

Livshits, DA

Zhukov, AE

Ustinov, VM

机构：

[1] Univ St Andrews, Sch Phys & Astron, St Andrews KY16 9SS, Fife, Scotland

[2] AF Ioffe Phys Tech Inst, St Petersburg 194021, Russia

来源：

IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS | 2004年 / 16卷 / 11期

关键词：

femtosecond pulse; mode-lock laser; quantum dot (QD); saturable absorber; ultrafast recovery time;

D O I：

10.1109/LPT.2004.835648

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

We demonstrate stable mode-locking in a Yb : KYW laser by using a quantum-dot (QD) saturable absorber. A fast component in the absorption decay in this QD structure has been measured by pump-probe technique to be similar to1 ps.

引用

页码：2439 / 2441

页数：3

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