Glass doped with PbS quantum dots for passive Q switching of a 1.54-μm laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 4345-4347

  Malyarevich, Alexander M ^a   Denisov, Igor A ^a   Savitsky, Vasily G ^a   Yumashev, Konstantin V ^a   Lipovskii, Andrey A ^b  

^a BELARUSIAN NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

^b PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; LIGHT EMISSION; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SWITCHING;

SATURATION INTENSITY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0000548524     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.004345     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. B. Denker, G. Maksimova, V. Osiko, S. Sverchkov, and Yu. Sverchkov, “Erbium glass laser with passive Q-switching of the resonator by a component containing erbium,” Sov. J. Quantum Electron. 211, 774-776 (1991).
2. R. Fluck, U. Keller, E. Gini, and H. Melchior, “Eyesafe pulsed microchip laser,” in Advanced Solid-State Lasers, W. R. Bosenberg and M. M. Fejer, eds., Vol. 19 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C.,1998), pp. 146-149.
3. R. D. Stultz, M. B. Carmargo, and M. Birnbaum, “Divalent uranium and cobalt saturable absorber Q-switches at 1.5 p.m,” OSA Proceedings in Advanced Solid-State Lasers, B. H. T. Chai and S. A. Payne, eds., Vol. 24 of OSA Proceedings (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1995), pp. 460-464.
4. R. Wu, D. Rhonehouse, M. J. Myers, S. J. Hamlin, J. D. Myers, and Y. Jiang, “Spectral bleaching and 1535 nm Q-switching of uranium glass,” in Advanced Solid-State Lasers, B. H. T. Chai and S. A. Payne, eds., Vol. 24 of OSA Proceedings (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1995), pp. 440-444.
5. 3+:glass laser,” in Advanced Solid-State Lasers, C. R. Pollock and W. R. Bosenberg, eds., Vol. 10 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics, (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1997), pp. 148-151.
6. 2+saturable absorber Q-switch for 1.3-1.6 p.M spectral region,” in Advanced Solid-State Lasers, W. R. Bosenberg and M. M. Fejer, eds., Vol. 19 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C.,1998), pp. 185-188.
7. Ph. Thony, B. Ferrand, and E. Molva, “1.55 p.M passive Q-switched microchip laser,” in Advanced Solid-State Lasers, W. R. Bosenberg and M. M. Fejer, eds., Vol. 19 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1998), pp. 150-154.
8. 19crystals,” in Advanced Solid-State Lasers, M. M. Fejer, H. Injeyan, and U. Keller, eds., Vol. 26 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (Optical Society of America, Washington, D. C., 1999), pp. 317-324.
9. P. T. Guerreiro, S. Ten, N. F. Borrelli, J. Butty, G. E. Jabbour, and N. Peyghambarian, “PbS quantum-dot doped glasses as saturable absorbes for mode-locking of a Cr:forsterite laser,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 71, 1595-1597 (1997).
10. A. A. Lipovskii, E. V. Kolobkova, and V. D. Petrikov, “PbSe quantum dot doped phosphate glass,” Electron. Lett. 33, 101-102 (1997).
11. I. Kang and F. W. Wise, “Electronic structure and optical properties of PbS and PbSe quantum dots,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B14, 1632-1646 (1997).
12. A. D. Andreev and A. A. Lipovskii, “Anisotropy-induced optical transitions in PbSe and PbS spherical quantum dots,” Phys. Rev. B 59, 15402-15404 (1999).
13. O. Madelung, ed., Landolt-Bornstein, New Series, (SpringerVerlag, New York, 1983), vol. 17, subvol. F, pp. 155-162.
14. E. Hanamura, “Very large optical nonlinearity of semiconductor microcrystallites,” Phys. Rev. B 37, 1273-1279 (1988).
15. K. Wundke, S. Putting, J. Auxier, A. Schulzgen, N. Peygham-barian, and N. F. Borrelli, “PbS quantum-dot-doped glasses for ultrashort-pulse generation,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 76,10-12 (2000).
16. K. L. Vodopyanov, A. V. Lukashev, and C. C. Philips, “Nano- and picosecond 3 p.M Er:YSGG lasers using InAs as passive Q-switchers and mode-lockers,” Opt. Commun. 95, 87-91 (1993).