Numerical study of active mode locking with hybrid lasers

Author

Guo, B. ; Yan, L. ; Menyuk, C.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

28-28 May 1999

Firstpage

111

Abstract

Summary form only given. In active mode locking of a laser, there exists a dispersion limited, maximum lockable bandwidth of a Gaussian pulse for a given modulation strength. For a narrow band, homogeneously broadened laser the mode-locked pulse bandwidth is much smaller due to the strong gain narrowing effect. Inhomogeneously broadened lasers do not suffer from gain narrowing, and consequently only partially coherent pulses can be obtained. It has been demonstrated in an actively mode-locked hybrid Nd:YLF and Nd:phosphate glass laser that by using two different laser media in one cavity one can obtain broader mode-locked bandwidth than by using the homogeneously broadened medium (Nd:YLF) alone, while phase coherence is ensured as well. In this paper we present the results of a numerical study of active mode locking with hybrid lasers.

Keywords

laser mode locking; neodymium; solid lasers; Gaussian pu; active mode locking; homogeneously broadened laser; hybrid lasers; inhomogeneously broadened lasers; maximum lockable bandwidth; Bandwidth; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Optimized production technology; Pulse width modulation; Shape; Solid lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-595-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1999.833955

Filename

833955