Ultrafast optical Stark mode-locked semiconductor laser

We report on 260 fs transform-limited pulses generated directly by an optical Stark passively mode-locked semiconductor disk laser at a 1 GHz repetition rate. A surface recombination semiconductor saturable absorber mirror and a step-index gain structure are used. Numerical propagation modeling of t...

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Published in:Optics letters 2008-12, Vol.33 (23), p.2797-2799
Main Authors: WILCOX, Keith G, MIHOUBI, Zakaria, DANIELL, G. J, ELSMERE, Stephen, QUARTERMAN, Adrian, FARRER, Ian, RITCHIE, David A, TYOPPER, Anne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Exact sciences and technology
Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications)
Lasers
Nonlinear optics
Optics
Physics
Semiconductor lasers
laser diodes
Ultrafast processes
optical pulse generation and pulse compression
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Summary:We report on 260 fs transform-limited pulses generated directly by an optical Stark passively mode-locked semiconductor disk laser at a 1 GHz repetition rate. A surface recombination semiconductor saturable absorber mirror and a step-index gain structure are used. Numerical propagation modeling of the optical Stark effect confirms that this mechanism is able to form the pulses that we observe.
ISSN:0146-9592
1539-4794
DOI:10.1364/OL.33.002797