title: Broadband saturable absorber for 10-fs pulse generation.
abstract: We demonstrate the fabrication of a broadband saturable absorber with a silver bottom mirror. The reflectivity bandwidth of the absorber shows the potential for generating sub-10-fs pulses. With a Ti:sapphire laser we obtained self-starting Kerr-lens mode-locked pulses as short as 10 fs at the cavity stability limit and selfstarting soliton mode-locked pulses of 16 fs over the full cavity stability regime.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fluck
authors.forename: I D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: F X
authors.initials: FX
authors.lastname: Kärtner
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Keller