Abstract

Stable pulses of less than 150 fsec are generated directly from a tunable cw passively mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser, through a balance of self-phase modulation in the Ti:sapphire rod and negative group-velocity dispersion produced by a prism pair. After external fiber compression, 50-fsec pulses are obtained at approximately 750 nm.

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60-fsec pulse generation from a self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser

D. E. Spence, P. N. Kean, and W. Sibbett
Opt. Lett. 16(1) 42-44 (1991)

50-fs pulse generation directly from a colliding-pulse mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser using an antiresonant ring mirror

Kazunori Naganuma and Kazuo Mogi
Opt. Lett. 16(10) 738-740 (1991)

Femtosecond pulses from a continuously self-starting passively mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser

U. Keller, G. W. ’tHooft, W. H. Knox, and J. E. Cunningham
Opt. Lett. 16(13) 1022-1024 (1991)

Generation of 36-fsec pulses near 775 nm from a colliding-pulse passively mode-locked dye laser

P. Georges, F. Salin, and A. Brun
Opt. Lett. 14(17) 940-942 (1989)

Pulse-forming dynamics of a cw passively mode-locked Ti:sapphire/DDI laser

Jahn-Chung Kuo, Jia-Min Shieh, Chin-Der Hwang, C.-S. Chang, Ci-Ling Pan, and Kaung-Hsiung Wu
Opt. Lett. 17(5) 334-336 (1992)