Abstract
Standard femtosecond self-mode-locked oscillators contain a pair of Brewster-angled prisms for producing a net negative group- delay dispersion (GDD) in the resonator. Prism pairs1 have been widely used for intracavity dispersion control in dye systems and adopted for the new generation of solid- state short-pulse lasers. Whilst it has been imperative that a prism pair be used for femtosecond mode locking of solid state lasers, they simultaneously appeared to set a limit to pulse shortening in sub-100-fs systems.
© 1994 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Ch. Spielmann, A. Stingl, F. Krausz, and R. Szipöcs
CMJ2 The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Europe) 1994
M. Ramaswamy-Paye and J. G. Fujimoto
CPD23 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 1994
Andreas Stingl, Christian Spielmann, Ferenc Krausz, and Robert Szipöcs
CFF5 The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Europe) 1996