Abstract

A diode-pumped mode-locked Cr:LiSAF laser is demonstrated for what is to our knowledge the first time. Active mode locking, with an acousto-optic modulator, and resonant passive mode locking, with a multiple-quantum-well absorber in an external cavity, have both yielded cw trains of picosecond pulses.

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All-solid-state actively mode-locked Cr:LiSAF laser

M. J. P. Dymott, I. M. Botheroyd, G. J. Hall, J. R. Lincoln, and A. I. Ferguson
Opt. Lett. 19(9) 634-636 (1994)

Femtosecond pulses from an all-solid-state Kerr-lens mode-locked Cr:LiSAF laser

J. R. Lincoln, M. J. P. Dymott, and A. I. Ferguson
Opt. Lett. 19(16) 1210-1212 (1994)

Self-mode-locked diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser

M. J. P. Dymott and A. I. Ferguson
Opt. Lett. 19(23) 1988-1990 (1994)

Diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF all-solid-state femtosecond oscillator and regenerative amplifier

R. Mellish, N. P. Barry, S. C. W. Hyde, R. Jones, P. M. W. French, J. R. Taylor, C. J. van der Poel, and A. Valster
Opt. Lett. 20(22) 2312-2314 (1995)

All-solid-state continuous-wave tunable blue-light source by intracavity doubling of a diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser

Franck Falcoz, François Balembois, Patrick Georges, Alain Brun, and Daniel Rytz
Opt. Lett. 20(11) 1274-1276 (1995)