TY - JOUR
T1 - High Repetition Rate Ti:Sapphire Laser Mode-Locked by InP Quantum-Dot Saturable Absorber
AU - Butkus, Mantas
AU - Robertson, Gordon
AU - Maker, Gareth
AU - Malcolm, Graeme
AU - Hamilton, Craig
AU - Krysa, A. B.
AU - Stevens, B. J.
AU - Hogg, Richard A.
AU - Qiu, Yang
AU - Walther, Thomas
AU - Rafailov, Edik U.
PY - 2011/8/15
Y1 - 2011/8/15
N2 - We report the first demonstration of a Ti:sapphire laser mode-locked with a quantum-dot mode-locker (QDM) at repetition rates up to 1.77 GHz with 8-ps pulse duration and 400-mW average output power. So far, with quantum-well-based mode-lockers, a repetition rate of only up to 300 MHz has been achievable in our experiments. We show that QDM can support mode-locking in a wide range of repetition rates from 100 MHz to 1.8 GHz.
AB - We report the first demonstration of a Ti:sapphire laser mode-locked with a quantum-dot mode-locker (QDM) at repetition rates up to 1.77 GHz with 8-ps pulse duration and 400-mW average output power. So far, with quantum-well-based mode-lockers, a repetition rate of only up to 300 MHz has been achievable in our experiments. We show that QDM can support mode-locking in a wide range of repetition rates from 100 MHz to 1.8 GHz.
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UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5985477
U2 - 10.1109/LPT.2011.2164902
DO - 10.1109/LPT.2011.2164902
M3 - Article
SN - 1041-1135
VL - 23
SP - 1603
EP - 1605
JO - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
JF - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
IS - 21
ER -