Passively modelocked diode-pumped erbium-ytterbium glass laser using a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters
- Vol. 35 (7), 567-569
- https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19990379
Abstract
A diode-pumped bulk Er3+:Yb3+:glass laser has been passively CW modelocked for the first time. Reliable, self-starting passive modelocking using semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) is demonstrated, with pulses as short as 2.5 ps being obtained with an average output power of 68 mW at the telecommunications wavelength of ~1.5 µm.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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