CONTINUOUSLY SELF-MODE-LOCKED TI-SAPPHIRE LASER THAT PRODUCES SUB-50-FS PULSES

被引:39
作者
RIZVI, NH
FRENCH, PMW
TAYLOR, JR
机构
[1] Femtosecond Optics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College, London, SW7 2BZ, Prince Consort Road
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D O I
10.1364/OL.17.000279
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
An external cavity coupled to a dispersion-compensated, self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser is shown to maintain cw mode locking to produce pulses as short as 47 fs. The same cavity arrangement is also shown to generate transform-limited pulses of 2-ps duration in the regime of linear external cavity mode locking.
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