GENERATION OF TRANSFORM-LIMITED 32-FS PULSES FROM A SELF-MODE-LOCKED TI-SAPPHIRE LASER

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作者
HUANG, CP
KAPTEYN, HC
MCINTOSH, JW
MURNANE, MM
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[1] Department of Physics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
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10.1364/OL.17.000139
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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We show that near-transform-limited 32-fs pulses can be generated directly from a self-mode-locked titanium-doped sapphire oscillator. The laser operates at a center wavelength of 813 nm with a bandwidth of 22 nm in a TEM00 mode. Correct choice of the glass for the intracavity prism pair results in improved compensation of group-velocity dispersion, which yields near-transform-limited output pulses. Compensation for group-velocity dispersion in the output coupler and autocorrelator optics is necessary in order to measure this transform-limited pulse width.
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