Title :
Passive stabilisation of an SBR-mode-locked Nd:KGW laser by nonlinear absorption in indium phosphide
Author :
Cerny, Pavel ; Valentine, Gareth ; Burns, David ; McEwan, Kenneth
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Photonics, Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, UK
Abstract :
We demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, that passive stabilisation using inverse saturable absorption in indium phosphide expands the parameter range for stable continuous wave mode-locking in a diode-pumped passively mode-locked Nd:KGW laser.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; indium compounds; laser mode locking; laser stability; neodymium; nonlinear optics; optical pumping; optical saturable absorption; solid lasers; InP; KGd(WO/sub 4/)/sub 2/:Nd; SBR-mode-locked Nd:KGW laser; indium phosphide; nonlinear absorption; passive stabilisation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
