SELF-STARTING FEMTOSECOND MODE-LOCKED ND GLASS-LASER THAT USES INTRACAVITY SATURABLE ABSORBERS

被引：60

作者：

KELLER, U ^{[1
]}

CHIU, TH ^{[1
]}

FERGUSON, JF ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] AT&T BELL LABS,HOLMDEL,NJ 07733

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 1993年 / 18卷 / 13期

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D O I：

10.1364/OL.18.001077

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We produced transform-limited pulses as short as 130 fs with 160-mW average output power from a passively mode-locked Nd:glass laser. This is to our knowledge the first demonstration of an intracavity semiconductor antiresonant Fabry-Perot saturable absorber continuously starting a Kerr-induced passively mode-locked laser. The antiresonant Fabry-Perot saturable absorber, even with dispersion compensation, produced only picosecond pulses, and femtosecond performance was observed only with the addition of an intracavity long-pass wavelength filter. We propose a new mode-locking mechanism, which we refer to as Kerr-shift mode locking, in which the wavelength-dependent intracavity aperture and self-phase modulation in Nd:glass combine to produce a self-wavelength shift that reduces intracavity losses for femtosecond pulses.

引用

页码：1077 / 1079

页数：3

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