Self-starting 6.5-fs pulses from a Ti:sapphire laser

Autor: Jung, I. D., Kärtner, F. X., Matuschek, N., Sutter, D. H., Morier-Genoud, F., Zhang, G., Keller, U., Scheuer, V., Tilsch, M., Tschudi, T.
Zdroj: Optics Letters; July 1997, Vol. 22 Issue: 13 p1009-1011, 3p
Abstrakt: We demonstrate self-starting 6.5-fs pulses from a Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser with 200-mW average output power at a pulse repetition rate of ≈86 MHz.?This is to our knowledge the shortest pulse ever generated directly from a laser. For dispersion compensation we used a prism pair in combination with double-chirped mirrors, which balances the higher-order dispersion of the prism pair and therefore flattens the average total group-delay dispersion in the laser cavity. For self-starting mode locking we used a broadband semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror.
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