title: Mode-locked picosecond diamond Raman laser.
abstract: We present a mode-locked diamond Raman laser synchronously pumped by a mode-locked laser running at 532 nm and pulse duration 26 ps. The diamond laser generated up to 2.2 W of average power with output pulses of duration 21 ps at a yellow wavelength of 573 nm. The output pulse duration varied notably with small changes in cavity length and decreased to a minimum of 9 ps. The power and pulse duration behavior as a function of cavity length is explained well by a model that includes phonon dephasing and group velocity dispersion of the pump and Stokes fields.
authors.affiliation: MQ Photonics Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia. david.spence@science.mq.edu.au
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Spence
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Granados
authors.forename: Richard P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Mildren