High Repetition Rate Ti:Sapphire Laser Mode-Locked by InP Quantum-Dot Saturable Absorber

Mantas Butkus; Gordon Robertson; Gareth Maker; Graeme Malcolm; Craig Hamilton; A. B. Krysa; B. J. Stevens; Richard A. Hogg; Yang Qiu; Thomas Walther; Edik U. Rafailov

doi:10.1109/LPT.2011.2164902

High Repetition Rate Ti:Sapphire Laser Mode-Locked by InP Quantum-Dot Saturable Absorber

Mantas Butkus
, Gordon Robertson
, Gareth Maker
, Graeme Malcolm
, Craig Hamilton
, A. B. Krysa
, B. J. Stevens
, Richard A. Hogg
, Yang Qiu
, Thomas Walther
, Edik U. Rafailov

Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT)

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1603 - 1605
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	23
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2011.2164902
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2011

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