Milestones
1992
Invention of the first SESAM device: the antiresonant Fabry-Perot saturable absorber (A-FPSA) Download Ref. [19] (PDF, 502 KB)
Now typically referred to as the standard high-finesse antiresonant SESAM Download Ref. [228] (PDF, 593 KB)
(a) Schematic resonant passive modelocking (RPM) cavity with coupled cavity: Download Ref. [13] (PDF, 516 KB). (b) Schematic linear cavity with intracavity saturable absorber which can be considered as an A-FPSA in analogy to the nonlinear reflectivity of the coupled cavity: Download Ref. [18] (PDF, 1 MB)
1995
Scaling the A-FPSA concept to a single quantum well saturable absorber Download Ref. [42] (PDF, 371 KB) and Download Ref. [46] (PDF, 242 KB)
1996
First SESAM with integrated disperson compensation Download Ref. [55] (PDF, 319 KB)
1996
Introduction of the more general SESAM concept Download Ref. [62] (PDF, 394 KB)
2005
How to design a low saturation fluence SESAM Download Ref. [228] (PDF, 593 KB)
2012
SESAM damage explained Download Ref. [323] (PDF, 1.1 MB)
2016
SESAM designs for kW average output power Download Ref. [405] (PDF, 5.5 MB) and Download Ref. [413] (PDF, 3.6 MB)
2021
Novel SWIR GaSb-based SESAMs for the 2 - 2.4 µm regime using type-I InGaSb quantum well saturable absorbers
Download Ref. 477 (PDF, 3.2 MB) and Download Ref. 495 (PDF, 11.3 MB)
2022
Chapter 7 in the textbook "Ultrafast Lasers" gives a comprehensive explanation of the SESAM design