Soliton stability conditions in actively mode-locked lasers with different degree of inhomogeneity

Author

Wei Lu ; Li Yan ; Menyuk, C.R.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

58

Abstract

Summary from only given. The soliton pulse shaping mechanism dominates ultrashort pulse generation in both passively and actively mode-locked lasers. In this paper, we studied the soliton stability conditions in actively mode-locked lasers with different degree of inhomogeneity. Numerical simulation shows that for an inhomogeneously broadened laser, a stable single soliton-like pulse can be generated only within a certain negative group velocity dispersion (GVD) region. Experimental results confirmed the trend for the GVD requirement.

Keywords

laser mode locking; laser stability; optical dispersion; optical pulse generation; optical solitons; actively mode-locked lasers; inhomogeneity; inhomogeneously broadened laser; negative group velocity dispersion; numerical simulation; passively mode-locked lasers; soliton pulse shaping mechanism; soliton stability conditions; stable single soliton-like pulse generation; ultrashort pulse generation; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Laser theory; Microchip lasers; Optical pulse generation; Optimized production technology; Pulse measurements; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation; Thermal lensing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1033430

Filename

1033430