The role of amplitude and phase shaping in the dispersive-pulse regime of a passively mode-locked dye laser

Author

Beck, M. ; Walmsley, I.A.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Opt., Rochester Univ., NY, USA

Volume

28

Issue

10

fYear

1992

fDate

10/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2274

Lastpage

2284

Abstract

The relative contributions of nonlinear amplitude and phase modulation in determining the shape and duration of a sub-100-fs pulse generated by a colliding-pulse mode-locked dye laser are examined. A phenomenological numerical model is developed that accounts consistently for the finite bandwidth of the saturable gain and absorbing media. The results for the model are compared with the experimentally measured amplitude and phase of 60-fs pulses from a laser operated in the dispersive (i.e., nonsoliton) regime. Good agreement is found with the measured pulse amplitude temporal asymmetry and with the measured chirp

Keywords

amplitude modulation; dye lasers; laser mode locking; optical dispersion; optical modulation; optical saturable absorption; phase modulation; 60 fs; absorbing media; dispersive regime; dispersive-pulse regime; finite bandwidth; measured chirp; nonlinear amplitude modulation; nonsoliton regime; passively mode-locked dye laser; phase modulation; phase shaping; phenomenological numerical model; pulse amplitude shaping; pulse amplitude temporal asymmetry; pulse duration; saturable gain; Bandwidth; Laser mode locking; Numerical models; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Phase measurement; Phase modulation; Pulse measurements; Pulse modulation; Shape;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.159534

Filename

159534