Cascaded second-order nonlinearity mode-locking of cw solid-state lasers

Author

Magni, V. ; Cerullo, Giulio ; De Silvestri, S. ; Monguzzi, A. ; Zavelani-Rossi, M.

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Fisica, CNR, Milano, Italy

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

135

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report on experimental and theoretical results concerning resonator design for cascaded second-order nonlinearity mode-locking (CSM) Nd:YAG lasers and pulse-duration optimization. The CSM critically depends on the nonlinear resonator losses. Since the nonlinear phase distortion arising from /spl chi//sup (2)/:/spl chi//sup (2)/ cascading is quite different from that resulting from Kerr effect, an original model, based on a perturbation theory, has been developed to analyze and design the resonator. The results have been tested experimentally.

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; neodymium; optical harmonic generation; perturbation theory; solid lasers; CW solid-state laser; Nd:YAG laser; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; cascaded second-order nonlinearity mode-locking; nonlinear phase distortion; nonlinear resonator losses; perturbation theory; pulse-duration optimization; resonator design; Design optimization; Kerr effect; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Laser theory; Optical design; Optical pulses; Phase distortion; Quantum cascade lasers; Solid lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-443-2

Type

conf

Filename

864464