80-fs Nd:silicate glass laser pumped by a single-mode 200-mW diode.
A Nd(3+)-doped Schott LG680 silicate glass laser was pumped with a single-mode 200-mW diode. Efficient cw operation was demonstrated with 37.5 mW output power and 36% slope efficiency. Passive mode-locking with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror yielded 80-fs pulses with a two-prism setup. Alternatively, pulses of approximately 200-fs, tunable over the range 1058-1076 nm, were obtained with either slit-tuning or a single-prism dispersive resonator. Output powers from 6 to 14 mW have been measured.
Agnesi
Antonio
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Dipartimento di Elettronica dell'Università di Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy. antonio.agnesi@unipv.it
Greborio
Alessandro
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Pirzio
Federico
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Reali
Giancarlo
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D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D054023:Lasers, Semiconductor; D053844:Lasers, Solid-State; D017640:Silicates
D017640:Silicates