A diode-pumped 1.5 mu m waveguide laser mode-locked at 6.8 GHz by a quantum dot SESAM

A. Choudhary; A. A. Lagatsky; Z. Y. Zhang; K. J. Zhou; Q. Wang; R. A. Hogg; K. Pradeesh; E. U. Rafailov; W. Sibbett; C. T. A. Brown; D. P. Shepherd

doi:10.1088/1612-2011/10/10/105803

A diode-pumped 1.5 mu m waveguide laser mode-locked at 6.8 GHz by a quantum dot SESAM

A. Choudhary^*, A. A. Lagatsky, Z. Y. Zhang, K. J. Zhou, Q. Wang, R. A. Hogg, K. Pradeesh, E. U. Rafailov, W. Sibbett, C. T. A. Brown, D. P. Shepherd

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Abstract

We report a passively mode-locked, diode-pumped waveguide laser operating in the 1.5 mu m spectral region using a quantum dot semiconductor saturable absorber mirror as the saturable absorber element. A repetition rate of up to 6.8 GHz and an average power as high as 30 mW were obtained during mode-locked operation. A minimum pulse duration of 2.5 ps was produced at a wavelength of 1556 nm. The repetition rate of the source was tuned by more than 1 MHz by changing the pump power, demonstrating a possible route towards integrated pulse repetition rate stabilization.

Original language	English
Article number	105803
Number of pages	4
Journal	Laser Physics Letters
Volume	10
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1612-2011/10/10/105803
Publication status	Published - Oct 2013

Keywords

TI-SAPPHIRE LASER
REPETITION-RATE
FREQUENCY COMB
TIMING JITTER

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Ultrafast Multi-GHz Waveguide Lasers: Ultrafast Multi GHz Waveguide Lasers
Brown, C. T. A. (PI), Lagatsky, A. A. (CoI) & Sibbett, W. (CoI)
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1/09/10 → 28/02/14
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A diode-pumped 1.5 mu m waveguide laser mode-locked at 6.8 GHz by a quantum dot SESAM

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