Construction of a Wavelength-Tunable Self-Starting Kerr Lens Mode-Locked Ti:Sapphire Laser System

Jih-Guang Lai；Kuei-Huei Lin；Deng-Guey Juang；Wen-Feng Hsieh

Chinese Journal of Physics

34卷2期（1996 / 04 / 01）

111 - 121

英文

We have successfully constructed a soft-aperturing, asymmetric cavity Kerr lens mode-locked (KLM) Ti:sapphire laser that is self-starting within 0.5 ms over 780-840 n m wavelength range without any additional starting devices or intracavity hard apertures. We believed that the soft-aperturing mechanism is essential in the self-starting KLM Ti:sapphire lasers and the round trip gain discrimination between CW and KLM modes of the Ti:sapphire laser is sufficient to support self-starting.