Self-starting 65-fs pulses from a Ti:sapphire laser
- 1 July 1997
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 22 (13), 1009-1011
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.22.001009
Abstract
We demonstrate self-starting 6.5-fs pulses from a Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser with 200-mW average output power at a pulse repetition rate of . This is to our knowledge the shortest pulse ever generated directly from a laser. For dispersion compensation we used a prism pair in combination with double-chirped mirrors, which balances the higher-order dispersion of the prism pair and therefore flattens the average total group-delay dispersion in the laser cavity. For self-starting mode locking we used a broadband semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror.
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