Scaling of the antiresonant Fabry–Perot saturable absorber design toward a thin saturable absorber
ID Jung, LR Brovelli, M Kamp, U Keller, M Moser - Optics letters, 1995 - opg.optica.org
ID Jung, LR Brovelli, M Kamp, U Keller, M Moser
Optics letters, 1995•opg.optica.orgWe demonstrate and discuss the scaling of the antiresonant Fabry–Perot saturable absorber
toward a novel antireflection-coated thin saturable absorber. With a Ti: sapphire laser we
obtained self-starting Kerr-lens mode-locked pulses as short as 19 fs. With the higher
modulation depth of the thin saturable absorber we obtained soliton mode-locked self-
starting 34-fs pulses over the full cavity stability regime with a significantly shorter mode-
locking buildup time. The pulse duration was limited only by the semiconductor Bragg mirror.
toward a novel antireflection-coated thin saturable absorber. With a Ti: sapphire laser we
obtained self-starting Kerr-lens mode-locked pulses as short as 19 fs. With the higher
modulation depth of the thin saturable absorber we obtained soliton mode-locked self-
starting 34-fs pulses over the full cavity stability regime with a significantly shorter mode-
locking buildup time. The pulse duration was limited only by the semiconductor Bragg mirror.
We demonstrate and discuss the scaling of the antiresonant Fabry–Perot saturable absorber toward a novel antireflection-coated thin saturable absorber. With a Ti:sapphire laser we obtained self-starting Kerr-lens mode-locked pulses as short as 19 fs. With the higher modulation depth of the thin saturable absorber we obtained soliton mode-locked self-starting 34-fs pulses over the full cavity stability regime with a significantly shorter mode-locking buildup time. The pulse duration was limited only by the semiconductor Bragg mirror.
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