Diode-pumped passively mode-locked Nd:CTGG disordered crystal laser

• Published in: Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics Vol. 95; no. 4; pp. 691 - 695
• Main Authors: Xie, G. Q., Tang, D. Y., Tan, W. D., Luo, H., Guo, S. Y., Yu, H. H., Zhang, H. J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.06.2009; Springer
• Subjects: Compensation; Crystals; Diode-pumped lasers; Dispersions; Doped-insulator lasers and other solid state lasers; Emission; Engineering; Exact sciences and technology; Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications); Laser materials; Laser optical systems: design and operation; Lasers; Modulation, tuning, and mode locking; Optical Devices; Optical materials; Optics; Photonics; Physical Chemistry; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum Optics; Repetition; Semiconductors; Wavelengths; 42.55.Xi; 42.60.Fc; 42.70.Hj; Saturable absorbers; Laser materials; Laser mode locking; Garnets; Solid state lasers; Mode locked laser; Optical materials; Diode pumping; Optical dispersion compensation; Intracavity; Mirrors; ps range; Neodymium lasers
• ISSN: 0946-2171; 1432-0649
• DOI: 10.1007/s00340-009-3471-6

A diode-pumped passively mode-locked Nd: CTGG disordered crystal laser has been experimentally demonstrated for the first time to our knowledge. Mode locked with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror, the laser generated 5.2 ps pulses at a repetition rate of 88 MHz. After intracavity dispersion compensation, the mode-locked pulses were shortened to 4.3 ps. Multiple emission wavelengths of the Nd:CTGG laser could be synchronously mode locked under dispersion compensation.