Summary form only given. Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors have been used to passively mode-lock a variety of solid state and fiber lasers. Fiber lasers typically operate at low fundamental repetition rates because of Er-doping density limits in fiber. A mode-locked fiber laser based on an Er/Yb codoped waveguide amplifier has been demonstrated, although with a P-APM mode-locking mechanism that is not scalable to short cavity lengths. Here, a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror is used for the first time to produce pulses as short as 1 ps at repetition rates of 25-100 MHz from a mode-locked Er/Yb waveguide laser in a linear cavity configuration that is scalable to very high repetition rates.


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    Title :

    Picosecond pulses from an Er/Yb waveguide laser passively mode-locked with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror


    Contributors:
    Thoen, E.R. (author) / Koontz, E.M. (author) / Jones, D.J. (author) / Langlois, P. (author) / Kartner, F.X. (author) / Ippen, E.P. (author) / Kolodziejski, L.A. (author) / Barbier, D. (author)


    Publication date :

    1999-01-01


    Size :

    295926 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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