Single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber assisted high-power mode-locking of a Ti:sapphire laser

被引:50
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作者
Baek, In Hyung [1 ]
Choi, Sun Young [1 ]
Lee, Hwang Woon [1 ]
Cho, Won Bae [1 ]
Petrov, Valentin [2 ]
Agnesi, Antonio [3 ]
Pasiskevicius, Valdas [4 ]
Yeom, Dong-Il [1 ]
Kim, Kihong [1 ]
Rotermund, Fabian [1 ]
机构
[1] Ajou Univ, Div Energy Syst Res, Suwon 443749, South Korea
[2] Max Born Inst Nonlinear Opt & Ultrafast Spect, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
[3] Univ Pavia, Dipartimento Elettron, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
[4] Royal Inst Technol, Dept Appl Phys, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
来源
OPTICS EXPRESS | 2011年 / 19卷 / 08期
关键词
OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PULSE GENERATION; FEMTOSECOND; MIRROR;
D O I
10.1364/OE.19.007833
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We report on passive mode-locking of a Ti:sapphire laser employing a single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber (SWCNT-SA) specially designed and fabricated for wavelengths near 800 nm. Mode-locked pulses as short as 62 fs were generated at a repetition rate of 99.4 MHz. We achieved output powers from the SWCNT-SA mode-locked laser as high as 600 mW with a slope efficiency of 26%. The characteristics of SWCNT-SA-assisted mode-locking were compared with those of Kerr-lens mode-locking without SWCNT-SA. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America
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页码:7833 / 7838
页数:6
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