Self-starting self mode-locked femtosecond diode pumped Cr:LiSAF laser

Franck Falcoz (1) , François Balembois (1) , Patrick Georges (1) , Alain Brun (1)

1 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Elsa

We describe a diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked Cr31:LiSrAlF6 laser that produces 50 mW of 70-fs pulses in the 820-890-nm range when pumped by two red diodes of 400 mW each. By using a lower-transmission output coupler we have demonstrated for the f irst time to our knowledge a self-starting regime with an output power of 10 mW and 55-fs pulses

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Franck Falcoz, François Balembois, Patrick Georges, Alain Brun. Self-starting self mode-locked femtosecond diode pumped Cr:LiSAF laser. Optics Letters, 1995, 20 (18), pp.1874-1876. ⟨hal-00691266⟩