PbS quantum-dot doped glasses as saturable absorbers for mode locking of a Cr:forsterite laser
- 22 September 1997
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 71 (12) , 1595-1597
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.119843
Abstract
Quantum confined nanocrystals of PbS in glass were used as intracavity saturable absorbers to obtain passive continuous-wave mode locking in a Cr:forsterite laser. We obtained near transformed-limited 4.6 ps laser pulses at 110 MHz repetition rate, and a wide tunability range of 1207–1307 nm. The absorption saturation intensity of the quantum-dot PbS doped glasses was measured to be 0.2 MW/cm2.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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