100-nm tunable femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser mode locked with a broadband saturable Bragg reflector
We report broad tunability of a femtosecond (fs) diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser mode-locked with a broadband saturable Bragg reflector (SBR). The SBR had seven pairs of Al[subscript x]O[subscript y]I(n∼1.5) and Al[subscript 0.17]Ga[subscript 0.83]As(n∼3.5) layers in its Bragg stack, enabling a 250 nm r...
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| author | Demirbas, Umit Wang, Jing Petrich, Gale S Nabanja, Sheila P. Birge, Jonathan R. Kolodziejski, Leslie A. Kartner, Franz X. Fujimoto, James G |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Demirbas, Umit Wang, Jing Petrich, Gale S Nabanja, Sheila P. Birge, Jonathan R. Kolodziejski, Leslie A. Kartner, Franz X. Fujimoto, James G |
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| description | We report broad tunability of a femtosecond (fs) diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser mode-locked with a broadband saturable Bragg reflector (SBR). The SBR had seven pairs of Al[subscript x]O[subscript y]I(n∼1.5) and Al[subscript 0.17]Ga[subscript 0.83]As(n∼3.5) layers in its Bragg stack, enabling a 250 nm reflectivity bandwidth around 850 nm. A 6-nm-thick strained In 0.15 Ga 0.85 As quantum well placed between Al[subscript 0.17]Ga[subscript 0.83] As cladding layers was used as a broadband saturable absorber in the 800C920 nm wavelength range. The laser was pumped by 6 single mode diodesi-four at 640 nn and two at 660 nm. Mode locking was self-starting and fs pulses could be continuously tuned from 800 nm to 905 nm by an intracavity birefringent filter with an out-of-plane optic axis. The pulse widths varied from 70 fs to 255 fs as the laser was tuned. The laser had an 85.5 MHz repetition rate and the output power varied from 80 mW to 180 mW with tuning. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1214982022-09-29T17:57:58Z 100-nm tunable femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser mode locked with a broadband saturable Bragg reflector Demirbas, Umit Wang, Jing Petrich, Gale S Nabanja, Sheila P. Birge, Jonathan R. Kolodziejski, Leslie A. Kartner, Franz X. Fujimoto, James G Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Lincoln Laboratory We report broad tunability of a femtosecond (fs) diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser mode-locked with a broadband saturable Bragg reflector (SBR). The SBR had seven pairs of Al[subscript x]O[subscript y]I(n∼1.5) and Al[subscript 0.17]Ga[subscript 0.83]As(n∼3.5) layers in its Bragg stack, enabling a 250 nm reflectivity bandwidth around 850 nm. A 6-nm-thick strained In 0.15 Ga 0.85 As quantum well placed between Al[subscript 0.17]Ga[subscript 0.83] As cladding layers was used as a broadband saturable absorber in the 800C920 nm wavelength range. The laser was pumped by 6 single mode diodesi-four at 640 nn and two at 660 nm. Mode locking was self-starting and fs pulses could be continuously tuned from 800 nm to 905 nm by an intracavity birefringent filter with an out-of-plane optic axis. The pulse widths varied from 70 fs to 255 fs as the laser was tuned. The laser had an 85.5 MHz repetition rate and the output power varied from 80 mW to 180 mW with tuning. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant ECS-0900901) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Grant FA9550-12-1-0499) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Grant FA9550-15-1-0473) National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant 2R01-CA075289-19) National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant 4R01-CA178636-04) National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant 5R01-NS057476-02) 2019-07-05T17:55:13Z 2019-07-05T17:55:13Z 2017-04 2017-04 2019-06-26T15:36:05Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1559-128X 2155-3165 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121498 Demirbas, Umit et al. "100-nm tunable femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser mode locked with a broadband saturable Bragg reflector." Applied Optics 56, 13 (April 2017): 3812-3816 © 2017 Optical Society of America en http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.56.003812 Applied Optics Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Optical Society of America Other repository |
| spellingShingle | Demirbas, Umit Wang, Jing Petrich, Gale S Nabanja, Sheila P. Birge, Jonathan R. Kolodziejski, Leslie A. Kartner, Franz X. Fujimoto, James G 100-nm tunable femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser mode locked with a broadband saturable Bragg reflector |
| title | 100-nm tunable femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser mode locked with a broadband saturable Bragg reflector |
| title_full | 100-nm tunable femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser mode locked with a broadband saturable Bragg reflector |
| title_fullStr | 100-nm tunable femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser mode locked with a broadband saturable Bragg reflector |
| title_full_unstemmed | 100-nm tunable femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser mode locked with a broadband saturable Bragg reflector |
| title_short | 100-nm tunable femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser mode locked with a broadband saturable Bragg reflector |
| title_sort | 100 nm tunable femtosecond cr lisaf laser mode locked with a broadband saturable bragg reflector |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121498 |
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