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
Rights
© 2012 Optical Society of America. This paper was published in Optics Letters and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at http://www.opticsinfobase.org
Description
This work was supported by EPSRCCollections
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