Abstract
A quantum-dot-based saturable absorber has been demonstrated to initiate the generation of femtosecond pulses from a passively mode-locked solid-state laser. Control and tuning of the pulse duration from was achieved. The transform-limited pulses at are the shortest pulses that were produced from the Cr:forsterite laser passively mode locked by an quantum-dot semiconductor saturable absorber mirror.
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