Theory of cw-mode locked solid-state lasers with enhanced spatial hole burning

Author

Kartner, Franz X. ; Braun, B. ; Weingarten, Kurt J. ; Keller, Ulrich

Author_Institution

Inst. of Quantum Electron., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

148

Lastpage

149

Abstract

Summary form only given. Strong spatial hole burning (SHB) leads to a strong coupling of all of the up to a thousand laser modes within the gain bandwidth of the laser medium. We implement the optical gain for arbitrary pumping levels and especially for the gain medium at the end of the cavity making extensive use of the fast Fourier transformation. With this expression for the gain we study the laser dynamics when operating cw, and actively as well as passively mode-locked with and without self-phase modulation (SPM) occurring in the gain medium, respectively.

Keywords

Fourier transform optics; laser mode locking; laser theory; optical hole burning; optical modulation; optical pumping; phase modulation; solid lasers; actively mode-locked; arbitrary pumping levels; cw lasers; cw-mode locked solid-state lasers; enhanced spatial hole burning; fast Fourier transformation; gain bandwidth; gain medium; laser cavity; laser dynamics; laser medium; laser modes; optical gain; passively mode-locked; self-phase modulation; strong coupling; Crystals; Delay effects; Diffraction gratings; Laser beams; Laser theory; Mirrors; Optical diffraction; Propagation delay; Silicon; 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

864485