Resonant saturable absorber mirrors for dispersion control in ultrafast lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 174-181

  Moenster, Mathias ^a   Griebner, Uwe ^a   Richter, Wolfgang ^b   Steinmeyer, Günter ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b BATOP GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Group delay dispersion; Passive mode locking; Photonic switching; Photonic thin film devices; Saturable absorber mirrors

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER LAYERS; DISPERSION CONTROL; DISPERSION MEASUREMENTS; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS; FULLY INTEGRATED; GAIN STRUCTURES; GIRES-TOURNOIS INTERFEROMETERS; GROUP DELAY DISPERSION; INTEGRATED DEVICE; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PHASE CHARACTERISTIC; PHOTONIC SWITCHING; RESONATOR STRUCTURES; SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DISK LASER;

DISPERSION COMPENSATION; DISPERSIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FIBER LASERS; GROUP DELAY; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; THIN FILM DEVICES;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 35148869343     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2006.889056     Document Type: Article

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