Title :
The onset and breakdown of passive mode locking with a parabolic gain spectrum
Author :
Gat, Omri ; Gordon, Ariel ; Fischer, Baruch
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
An explicit analysis of an important passively mode locked lasers class with a parabolic gain profile is derived, using a recently developed statistical mechanics approach. Mode locking occurs when the normalized inverse noise power /spl gamma/ = 9.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; laser noise; laser theory; statistical mechanics; mode locked lasers; normalized inverse noise power; parabolic gain spectrum; passive mode locking; statistical mechanics approach;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
