Widely-tunable femtosecond operation of Cr:LiSAF lasers using broadband saturable bragg reflectors

Widely-tunable femtosecond operation of Cr:LiSAF lasers using broadband saturable bragg reflectors

We describe a low-cost diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser, mode-locked using a broadband saturable Bragg reflector. The laser produces continuously tunable sub-200-fs pulses from 800 nm to 905 nm.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Demirbas, Umit, Petrich, Gale S., Nabanja, Sheila P., Birge, Jonathan R., Kolodziejski, Leslie A., Kaertner, Franz X., Fujimoto, James G.
Other Authors:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format:	Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2012
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73965 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8733-2555 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1368-4002 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0828-4357

Description
Summary:	We describe a low-cost diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser, mode-locked using a broadband saturable Bragg reflector. The laser produces continuously tunable sub-200-fs pulses from 800 nm to 905 nm.