Abstract
In recent years significant developments have been made in passively modelocked solid-state lasers by the application of semiconductor-based saturable absorbers1,2. Such saturable absorbers have been developed for use in broadly tunable lasers such as Ti:sapphire and Cr:LiSAF where attractive features such as improved reliability and self-starting are introduced, although at the expense of wavelength tunability compared to Kerr-Lens-Modelocked lasers.
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