Reviews for modelocked solid-state laser
2010
As we look back from today in 2010 for the last 20 years, we see that ultrafast solid-state lasers have become the key enabling technology for many new applications, and have established themselves successfully in at least several industrial areas.
The situation was substantially different 20 years ago, when ultrafast lasers were predominantly based on dye laser technology or active modelocked solid-state lasers, and it was assumed that passive modelocking of diode-pumped solid-state lasers was very difficult, if not impossible.
Key breakthroughs came with the invention of the semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) [1, 2] and Kerr lens modelocking (KLM) [3]. Previously, Q-switching instabilities prevented stable passive modelocking of diode-pumped solid-state lasers for more than 25 years. This breakthrough was enabled through the major progress in solid-state laser technology: first with the discovery of the Ti:sapphire laser material and second with the rapid progress in high power semiconductor diode laser arrays to efficiently pump solid-state lasers.
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- U. Keller, K. J. Weingarten, F. X. Kärtner, D. Kopf, B. Braun, I. D. Jung, R. Fluck, C. Hönninger, N. Matuschek, and J. Aus der Au, IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 2, 435 (1996). – DownloadRef. [62] Download (PDF, 394 KB)vertical_align_bottom
- D. E. Spence, P. N. Kean, and W. Sibbett, Opt. Lett. 16, 42 (1991). external pageLinkcall_made
Invited Review article: 20 years of ultrafast solid-state lasers
An invited review article gives a broad overview and includes some personal accounts of the key events during the last 20 years which made ultrafast solid-state lasers a success story: DownloadRef. [300] Download (PDF, 750 KB)vertical_align_bottom
U. Keller
“Ultrafast solid-state laser oscillators: a success story for the last 20 years with no end in sight”
Appl. Phys. B, vol. 100, pp. 15-28, 2010
2007
A very good introduction overview for ultrafast solid-state lasers is given in the book chapter below. It also provides extensive tables summarizing many different results.
U. Keller
Ultrafast solid-state lasers
Landolt-Börnstein, Group VIII/1B1, Laser Physics and Applications. Subvolume B: Laser Systems. Part 1. Edited by G. Herziger, H. Weber, R. Proprawe, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, October, pp. 33-167, 2007
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