Resonant dispersion effect on actively mode-locked Nd:glass laser

Author

Wei Lu ; Li Yan ; Menyuk, C.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

51

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report a study of the dispersion effects in an actively mode-locked Nd:glass laser. We found that the resonant dispersion played an important role in the actively mode-locked Nd:glass laser. With a large positive group velocity dispersion (GVD), the laser produced incoherent pulses. Around zero GVD the pulse quality was still poor, which we believe was due to the resonant dispersion. In the deep negative GVD region, the influence of the resonant dispersion was reduced and the laser generated pulses as short as 83 fs.

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; neodymium; optical dispersion; optical pulse generation; solid lasers; 83 fs; actively mode-locked Nd:glass laser; coherent pulses; deep negative GVD region; fs laser pulse generation; large positive GVD; pulse quality; resonant dispersion; resonant dispersion effect; Bandwidth; Dispersion; Frequency; Laser modes; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse measurements; Resonance; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.947450

Filename

947450