Abstract

A high-dynamic-range autocorrelation technique was used to characterize the temporal pulse shape of ultrashort laser pulses produced from four separate oscillators. These lasers included two Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:sapphire oscillators as well as a Nd:glass and a Ti:sapphire oscillator, each passively mode locked by an antiresonant Fabry–Perot semiconductor saturable absorber. It was shown that the Nd:glass oscillator supported a pulse that was temporally clean over 8 orders of magnitude.

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Diode-pumped mode-locked Nd:glass lasers with an antiresonant Fabry–Perot saturable absorber

D. Kopf, F. X. Kärtner, U. Keller, and K. J. Weingarten
Opt. Lett. 20(10) 1169-1171 (1995)

Scaling of the antiresonant Fabry–Perot saturable absorber design toward a thin saturable absorber

I. D. Jung, L. R. Brovelli, M. Kamp, U. Keller, and M. Moser
Opt. Lett. 20(14) 1559-1561 (1995)

Femtosecond Yb:YAG laser using semiconductor saturable absorbers

C. Hönninger, G. Zhang, U. Keller, and A. Giesen
Opt. Lett. 20(23) 2402-2404 (1995)

Experimental verification of soliton mode locking using only a slow saturable absorber

I. D. Jung, F. X. Kärtner, L. R. Brovelli, M. Kamp, and U. Keller
Opt. Lett. 20(18) 1892-1894 (1995)

Solid-state low-loss intracavity saturable absorber for Nd:YLF lasers: an antiresonant semiconductor Fabry–Perot saturable absorber

U. Keller, D. A. B. Miller, G. D. Boyd, T. H. Chiu, J. F. Ferguson, and M. T. Asom
Opt. Lett. 17(7) 505-507 (1992)