Abstract

A Cr:LiSrAIF₆ laser has been mode locked by using a multiple-quantum-well (MQW) absorber. With the MQW absorber inside the laser cavity, Kerr lens mode locking is initiated, yielding transform-limited pulses as short as 93 fs. Pulses of 500-fs duration have also been produced by using resonant passive mode locking with the MQW absorber in an external cavity.

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50-fs pulse generation from a self-starting cw passively mode-locked Cr:LiSrAlF₆ laser

N. H. Rizvi, P. M. W. French, and J. R. Taylor
Opt. Lett. 17(12) 877-879 (1992)

50-fs pulse generation from a self-mode-locked Cr:LiSrAlF₆ laser

J. M. Evans, D. E. Spence, W. Sibbett, B. H. T. Chai, and A. Miller
Opt. Lett. 17(20) 1447-1449 (1992)

Mode-locked all-solid-state diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser

P. M. W. French, R. Mellish, J. R. Taylor, P. J. Delfyett, and L. T. Florez
Opt. Lett. 18(22) 1934-1936 (1993)

Generation of 33-fs pulses from a passively mode-locked Cr³⁺:LiSrAlF₆ laser

N. H. Rizvi, P. M. W. French, and J. R. Taylor
Opt. Lett. 17(22) 1605-1607 (1992)

Self-starting femtosecond mode-locked Nd:glass laser that uses intracavity saturable absorbers

U. Keller, T. H. Chiu, and J. F. Ferguson
Opt. Lett. 18(13) 1077-1079 (1993)