Statistical light-mode dynamics of passive mode-locking with slow saturable absorber

Author

Katz, Michael ; Gat, Omri ; Fischer, Baruch

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We employ a novel dynamical approach to study the slow saturable absorber mode-locking with noise. We obtain explicit expressions for the condition of pulse existence and continuum stability, the pulse power and the minimal pulse width, and present the guidelines for optimal system configuration.

Keywords

laser mode locking; laser modes; laser noise; laser stability; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; slow light; statistical analysis; continuum stability; laser noise; optical pulse generation; optimal system configuration; passive mode-locking; slow saturable absorber; statistical light-mode dynamics; Guidelines; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Laser stability; Laser theory; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Power lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation; 140.3430 Laser theory; 140.4050 Mode-locked lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5224633