title: 80-fs Nd:silicate glass laser pumped by a single-mode 200-mW diode.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Elettronica dell'Università di Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy. antonio.agnesi@unipv.it
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Agnesi
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Greborio
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pirzio
authors.forename: Giancarlo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Reali
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D054023:Lasers, Semiconductor; D053844:Lasers, Solid-State; D017640:Silicates
chemical_list: D017640:Silicates