EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF A SELF-STARTING KERR-LENS MODE-LOCKED TITANIUM-DOPED SAPPHIRE LASER

摘要

We report an experimental investigation of self-starting operation of picosecond and femtosecond Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:sapphire lasers. Pulses as short as 5 ps duration have been generated from self-starting lasers with no intracavity prisms to optimise group velocity dispersion. Self-starting dispersion-compensated lasers have generated pulses as short as 43 fs duration with mode-locking self-starting within 0.7 ms of the onset of laser action. [References: 11]