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Self-mode-locking of the Nd3+:KGd(WO4)2 laser using a multifunctional semiconductor mirror

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A multifunctional semiconductor mirror that contains a saturable absorber based on quantum wells, a broadband reflector, and a Gires-Tournois interferometer that serves as a GVD compensator is designed and created. The mirror is fully characterized using the pump-probe technique with a subpicosecond resolution and the transmission and photoluminescence spectroscopy. The mirror that simultaneously executes the three functions and that is created in a single technological cycle provides stable mode-locking in the Nd3+:KGd(WO4)2 laser.

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  1. Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Lavrent’eva 13, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    N. N. Rubtsova, A. A. Kovalev, V. V. Preobrazhenskii, M. A. Putyato, O. P. Pchelyakov & T. S. Shamirzaev

  2. Institute of Optical Materials and Technologies, National Technical University, pr. Nezavisimosti 65, bldg. 17, Minsk, 220013, Belarus

    N. V. Kuleshov, V. E. Kisel’ & S. V. Kuril’chik

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Rubtsova, N.N., Kuleshov, N.V., Kisel’, V.E. et al. Self-mode-locking of the Nd3+:KGd(WO4)2 laser using a multifunctional semiconductor mirror. Laser Phys. 19, 285–289 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X09020224

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