Ultrabroadband chirped mirrors for femtosecond lasers

Opt Lett. 1997 Apr 15;22(8):528-30. doi: 10.1364/ol.22.000528.

Abstract

We report on the performance of widely tunable femtosecond and continuous-wave Ti:sapphire lasers that use a newly developed ultrabroadband mirror set. The mirrors exhibit high reflectivity (R > 99%) and smooth variation of group delay versus frequency over a wavelength range from 660 to 1060 nm. Mode-locked operation with pulse durations of 85 fs was achieved from 693 to 978 nm with only one set of ultrabroadband mirrors.