• DocumentCode
    1436475
  • Title

    Mode-locking of lasers

  • Author

    Haus, Herman A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Volume
    6
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2000
  • Firstpage
    1173
  • Lastpage
    1185
  • Abstract
    The evolution of the theory of mode-locking over the last three and a half decades is reviewed and some of the salient experiments are discussed in the context of the theory. The paper ends with two-cycle pulses of a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser.
  • Keywords
    Fabry-Perot resonators; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; reviews; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/:Ti; Ti:sapphire laser; lasers; mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser; mode-locking; review; salient experiments; theory; two-cycle pulses; Bandwidth; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical resonators; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse measurements; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1077-260X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/2944.902165
  • Filename
    902165