Diode-pumped mode-locked Nd:glass lasers with an antiresonant Fabry–Perot saturable absorber
- 15 May 1995
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 20 (10) , 1169-1171
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.20.001169
Abstract
We demonstrate passively mode-locked diode-pumped Nd:glass lasers with different media such as silicate, phosphate, and fluorophosphate that are homogeneously or inhomogeneously broadened. An antiresonant Fabry–Perot saturable absorber starts and stabilizes the soliton mode-locked Nd:glass lasers, producing pulses as short as 130 fs at an average output power of 100 mW. With a cw Ti:sapphire pump laser we obtain pulses as short as 90 fs.Keywords
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