• DocumentCode
    1107323
  • Title

    Design considerations for a femtosecond pulse laser balancing self phase modulation, group velocity dispersion, saturable absorption, and saturable gain

  • Author

    Valdmanis, Janis A. ; Fork, R.L.

  • Author_Institution
    AT&T Bell Lab., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    22
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1986
  • fDate
    1/1/1986 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    112
  • Lastpage
    118
  • Abstract
    This paper describes the design and operating characteristics of a femtosecond pulse ring dye laser that employs the combined effects of self phase modulation, group velocity dispersion, saturable absorption, and saturable gain to generate pulses as short as 27 fs.
  • Keywords
    Dye lasers; Phase modulation; Pulsed lasers; Ring lasers; Ultrafast optics; Absorption; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Optical design; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Phase modulation; Pulse modulation; Ring lasers; Scanning probe microscopy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.1986.1072854
  • Filename
    1072854