Passively mode locked femtosecond Tm:Sc2O3 laser at 2.1 mu m
Abstract
We report on the passive mode locking of a Tm3+:Sc2O3 laser at 2.1 mu m using a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror based on InGaAsSb quantum wells. Transform-limited 218 fs pulses are generated with an average power of 210 mW. A maximum output power of 325 mW is produced during mode locking with the corresponding pulse duration of 246 fs at a pulse repetition frequency of 124.3 MHz. A Ti:sapphire laser is used as the pump source operating at 796 nm. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America
Citation
Lagatsky , A A , Koopmann , P , Fuhrberg , P , Huber , G , Brown , C T A & Sibbett , W 2012 , ' Passively mode locked femtosecond Tm:Sc2O3 laser at 2.1 mu m ' , Optics Letters , vol. 37 , no. 3 , pp. 437-439 . https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.37.000437
Publication
Optics Letters
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0146-9592Type
Journal article
Description
This work was supported by EPSRCCollections
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