Femtosecond pulses at 800 nm by passive mode locking of Rh.700

Patrick Georges (1) , François Salin (1) , Gilles Le Saux (1) , Gérard Roger (1) , Alain Brun (1)

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

We report the passive mode locking of a Rhodamine 700 dye laser in the near infrared. Using a short cavity in order to avoid multiple pulses and by adjusting the intracavity dispersion, we have produced 50-fsec pulses at 800 nm with HITCI as the saturable absorber

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Patrick Georges, François Salin, Gilles Le Saux, Gérard Roger, Alain Brun. Femtosecond pulses at 800 nm by passive mode locking of Rh.700. Optics Letters, 1990, 15 (8), pp.446-448. ⟨hal-00691672⟩