Femtosecond Nd:glass oscillator operating in normal dispersion regime.
A diode-pumped, prismless Nd:glass laser oscillator, mode-locked by a semiconductor saturable absorber, was stabilized against self-Q-switching by using a phase-mismatched second harmonic crystal. Furthermore, negative-index cascaded second-order nonlinearity provided the soliton shaping mechanism with normal intracavity dispersion. Nearly Fourier-limited pulses as short as 520 fs were obtained.
Agnesi
Antonio
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Dipartimento di Elettronica dell'Università di Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy. antonio.agnesi@unipv.it
Carrà
Luca
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Pirzio
Federico
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Reali
Giancarlo
G
D000669:Amplifiers, Electronic; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005898:Glass / Q000737:chemistry*; D054023:Lasers, Semiconductor; D008027:Light; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009354:Neodymium; D009991:Oscillometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation
D009354:Neodymium