Title :
Effect of finite relaxation rates and round-trip times on regimes of few-cycle pulses in a laser with coherent passive mode-locking
Author :
Yusupov, M.R. ; Vysotina, N.V. ; Rosanov, Nikolay N.
Author_Institution :
Vavilov State Opt. Inst., St. Petersburg, Russia
fDate :
June 30 2014-July 4 2014
Abstract :
Generation of single or several few-cycle pulses in a laser by the technique of passive coherent mode-locking is numerically demonstrated for the case when the cavity round-trip time is comparable with the relaxation times of active (with gain) and passive (saturable absorber) media.
Keywords :
laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; light coherence; numerical analysis; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; active saturable absorber media; cavity round-trip time effect; few-cycle laser pulse generation; finite relaxation rate effect; numerical analysis; passive coherent mode-locking technique; passive saturable absorber media; relaxation times; Laser mode locking; coherent mode locking; few cycle solitons; laser with saturable absorption;
Conference_Titel :
Laser Optics, 2014 International Conference
Conference_Location :
Saint Petersburg
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3884-1
DOI :
10.1109/LO.2014.6886431
