Nanosecond passively mode-locked laser with a hundred megahertz spectral bandwidth

We demonstrate a passively mode-locked laser emitting 4.3 nanosecond quasi-Fourierlimited pulses with a record low (104.9 MHz) spectral bandwidth. The laser relies on the simultaneous nested-cavity filtering and cavity-enhanced nonlinear interactions within an integrated microring resonator. © OSA 2016.