Abstract
There has been dramatic improvement in short pulse generation using solid state lasers over the past decade. This has been brought about by improvements in laser gain media, the advent of diode pumping of solid state lasers and the use of nonlinear processes to induce mode-locking. We have seen the reduction in pulse duration of conventional gain media such as Nd: YAG by over an order of magnitude, and new tunable materials such as Ti.Al 2 0 3 and Cr.LiSAF have been made to produce light pulses with durations well below 100fsec. I will describe some of the basic ideas and techniques which have been employed in reaching these new levels of pulse duration. These will be illustrated with descriptions of particular systems.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
P F Moulton, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B., 125 (1986).
G C H New, Rep. Prog. Phys, 46, 877, (1983).
D J Kuizenga and A E Siegman, IEEE J. Quantum Electron., QE-6, 709 (1979).
E P Ippen, H A Haus and L Y Liu, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 6, 1736 (1989).
H A Haus, J G Fujimoto and E P Ippen, J. Opt. soc. Am. B, 8, 2063 (1991).
E P Ippen, L Y Liu and H A Haus, Opt. Lett, 15, 183 (1990)
G T Maker and A I Ferguson, Appl. Phys. Lett, 53, 1675 (1988).
G P A Malcolm, P F Curley and A I Ferguson, Opt. Lett, 15, 1303 (1990).
G P A Malcolm, A I Ferguson, Opt. Lett, 16, 1967 (1991).
S A Payne, L L Chase, C K Smith, W L Kway and H W Newkirk, J Appl. Phys. 66,1051 (1989).
J Goodberlet, J Wong, J G Fujimoto, P A Schulz, Opt. Lett. 14, 1125 (1989).
K J Blow and D P Nelson, Opt. Lett, 13, 1026 (1988).
D E Spence, P N Keen and W Sibbett, Opt. Lett. 16, 42 (1990).
Ch Spielmann, P F Curley, T Brabec, E Wintner, A J Schmidt and F Kransz,“Design Considerations for femtosecond Ti:rsapphire oscillators”, in Digest of Meeting on Ultrafast Phenomena (1992).
D K Negus, L Spinelli, N Goldblatt and G Feugnel, Digest of Meeting on Advanced Solid State Lasers (Optical Society of America, Washington DC 1991) PDP4.
P Li Kam Wa, B H T Chai, H S Wang and A Miller, Digest of Conference on Lasers & Electro-optics (Optical Society of America, Washington DC) paper CTuCll (1992).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1993 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Ferguson, A.I., Malcolm, G.P.A. (1993). Mode-Locked Solid State Lasers. In: Inguscio, M., Wallenstein, R. (eds) Solid State Lasers. NATO ASI Series, vol 317. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2998-9_3
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2998-9_3
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4613-6306-4
Online ISBN: 978-1-4615-2998-9
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive