We demonstrate a femtosecond Cr：YAG laser mode-locked by a carbon nanotube saturable absorber mirror（CNT-SAM） at a repetition rate of 550 MHz. By employing the CNT-SAM, which exhibits a modulation depth of 0.51% an...We demonstrate a femtosecond Cr：YAG laser mode-locked by a carbon nanotube saturable absorber mirror（CNT-SAM） at a repetition rate of 550 MHz. By employing the CNT-SAM, which exhibits a modulation depth of 0.51% and a saturation fluence of 28 μJ∕cm^2 at 1.5 μm, we achieved a compact bulk Cr：YAG laser with selfstarting mode-locked operation near 1.5 μm, delivering an average output power of up to 147 m W and a pulse duration of 110 fs. To our knowledge, this system provides the highest repetition rate among reported CNT-SAM mode-locked Cr：YAG lasers and the shortest pulse duration among saturable absorber mode-locked Cr：YAG lasers with repetition rates above 500 MHz.展开更多
基金supported by the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute Primary research program through the National Research Council of Science & Technology(NST)funded by the Ministry of Science,ICT and Future Planning(MSIP)(No.18-12-N0101-41)the Creative Allied Project of the NST(No.CAP-15-06-ETRI)the National Research Foundation(NRF)of Korea funded by MSIP(Nos.2016R1A2A1A05005381 and2017R1A4A1015426)
文摘We demonstrate a femtosecond Cr：YAG laser mode-locked by a carbon nanotube saturable absorber mirror（CNT-SAM） at a repetition rate of 550 MHz. By employing the CNT-SAM, which exhibits a modulation depth of 0.51% and a saturation fluence of 28 μJ∕cm^2 at 1.5 μm, we achieved a compact bulk Cr：YAG laser with selfstarting mode-locked operation near 1.5 μm, delivering an average output power of up to 147 m W and a pulse duration of 110 fs. To our knowledge, this system provides the highest repetition rate among reported CNT-SAM mode-locked Cr：YAG lasers and the shortest pulse duration among saturable absorber mode-locked Cr：YAG lasers with repetition rates above 500 MHz.
