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    Graphene mode-locked Tm,Ho-codoped crystalline garnet laser producing 70-fs pulses near 21 µm
    (Washington, DC : OSA, 2019) Zhao, Yongguang; Chen, Weidong; Wang, Li; Wang, Yicheng; Pan, Zhongben; Dai, Xiaojun; Yuan, Hualei; Cai, Huaqiang; Zhang, Yan; Bae, Ji Eun; Park, Tae Gwan; Rotermund, Fabian; Loiko, Pavel; Serres, Josep Maria; Mateos, Xavier; Shen, Deyuan; Griebner, Uwe; Petrov, Valentin
    Bilayer graphene synthesized by chemical vapor deposition is successfully applied as a saturable absorber (SA) for the passive mode-locking of a Tm,Ho:CLNGG laser at 2093nm. Near transform-limited pulses as short as 70 fs, i.e., 10 optical cycles, are produced at a 89 MHz repetition rate with 69 mW average output power. To the best of our knowledge, these are the shortest pulses ever reported from graphene-SA mode-locked Tm, or Ho-lasers in the 2 µm spectral region, including bulk and fiber lasers.
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    Sub-100 fs mode-locked Tm:CLTGG laser
    (Washington, DC : Soc., 2021) Wang, Li; Chen, Weidong; Pan, Zhongben; Loiko, Pavel; Bae, Ji Eun; Rotermund, Fabian; Mateos, Xavier; Griebner, Uwe; Petrov, Valentin
    We report on the first sub-100 fs mode-locked laser operation of a Tm3+-doped disordered calcium lithium tantalum gallium garnet (Tm:CLTGG) crystal. Soliton mode-locking was initiated and stabilized by a transmission-type single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber. Pulses as short as 69 fs were achieved at a central wavelength of 2010.4 nm with an average power of 28 mW at a pulse repetition rate of ∼87.7 MHz. In the sub-100 fs regime, the maximum average output power amounted to 103 mW.
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    Delay-induced dynamics and jitter reduction of passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers subject to optical feedback
    (Bristol : IOP, 2012) Otto, C.; Lüdge, K.; Vladimirov, A.G.; Wolfrum, M.; Schöll, E.
    We study a passively mode-locked semiconductor ring laser subject to optical feedback from an external mirror. Using a delay differential equation model for the mode-locked laser, we are able to systematically investigate the resonance effects of the inter-spike interval time of the laser and the roundtrip time of the light in the external cavity (delay time) for intermediate and long delay times. We observe synchronization plateaus following the ordering of the well-known Farey sequence. Our results show that in agreement with the experimental results a reduction of the timing jitter is possible if the delay time is chosen close to an integer multiple of the inter-spike interval time of the laser without external feedback. Outside the main resonant regimes the timing jitter is drastically increased by the feedback.