Abstract

Results are presented that illustrate how the operation of a coupled-cavity mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser depends on some of the important operating parameters. In particular, it is shown how group-velocity dispersion plays a key role in determining the duration of the mode-locked pulses. By using dispersion compensation in both the main and the control cavities, transform-limited pulses have been generated that have durations as short as 90 fs with average and peak powers of 80 mW and 10 kW, respectively.

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60-fsec pulse generation from a self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser

D. E. Spence, P. N. Kean, and W. Sibbett
Opt. Lett. 16(1) 42-44 (1991)

Femtosecond pulses from a continuously self-starting passively mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser

U. Keller, G. W. ’tHooft, W. H. Knox, and J. E. Cunningham
Opt. Lett. 16(13) 1022-1024 (1991)

Self-starting 12.7  fs pulse generation from a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser pumped by a femtosecond Yb:KGW laser

Xianghao Meng, Zhaohua Wang, Jianwang Jiang, Wenlong Tian, Shaobo Fang, and Zhiyi Wei
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 35(5) 967-971 (2018)

Generation of 50-fsec pulses from a pulse-compressed, cw, passively mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser

Nobuhiko Sarukura, Yuzo Ishida, and Hidetoshi Nakano
Opt. Lett. 16(3) 153-155 (1991)

50-fs pulse generation directly from a colliding-pulse mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser using an antiresonant ring mirror

Kazunori Naganuma and Kazuo Mogi
Opt. Lett. 16(10) 738-740 (1991)