Femtosecond semiconductor lasers are ideal devices to provide the ultrashort pulses for
industrial and biomedical use because of their robustness, stability, compactness and …

The generation of high peak power femtosecond pulses from an all semiconductor laser
system is demonstrated. The system is based on a passively modelocked two-section laser …

The generation of ultrashort optical pulses is an extremely exciting and rapidly growing field.
This is primarily due to the fact that these short optical pulses allow the probing of …

Gain-switching of laser diodes might be the most convenient way to generate picosecond
laser pulses. The outstanding features of gain-switched laser diodes are a rich choice of …

We describe the generation of femtosecond high power optical pulses using hybrid passive-
active mode-locking techniques. Angle stripe geometry GaAs/AlGaAs semiconductor laser …

Optical pulses with durations of a few tens of femtoseconds are used to drive applications
ranging from attoscience to metrology, but femtosecond lasers remain bulky and expensive …

We demonstrate the first semiconductor mode-locked lasers for ultrashort pulse generation
at the 760 nm waveband. Multi-section laser diodes based on an AlGaAs multi-quantum …

Lasers generating short pulses–referred to as ultrafast lasers–enable many applications in
science and technology. Numerous laboratory experiments have confirmed that ultrafast …

Femtosecond laser pulses enable the synthesis of light across the electromagnetic spectrum
and provide access to ultrafast phenomena in physics, biology, and chemistry. Chip …

Femtosecond lasers with high repetition rates are attractive for spectroscopic applications
with high sampling rates, high power per comb line, and resolvable lines. However, at long …