Title :
Mode-locking of lasers
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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;
Journal_Title :
Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/2944.902165
