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Self-starting mode-locked Cr^4+:YAG laser with a low-loss broadband semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror

Zhigang Zhang, Tadashi Nakagawa, Kenji Torizuka, Takeyoshi Sugaya, Katsuyuki Kobayashi

Optics Letters · 1999 · 39 citations · 12 references

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Abstract

We report a self-starting mode-locked Cr(4+):YAG laser with a low-loss broadband metal reflector-based semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror. The minimum pulse width was 44 fs at a wavelength of 1520 nm.

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