Hysteresis in highly overdriven additive pulse modelocked laser systems

Author

Lenz, G. ; Moores, J.D. ; Khatri, F.I. ; Ippen, E.P. ; Haus, H.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

31 Oct-3 Nov 1994

Firstpage

435

Abstract

Additive pulse modelocking (APM) is a popular technique for passive modelocking of solid state and fiber lasers. Recently, a number of systems have been demonstrated in which the nonlinearity in the auxiliary cavity (AC) is much higher than that assumed in conventional APM theory. Effects such as period doubling, multiple π nonlinear phase shift in the AC, etc., have been observed. In this paper we describe experiments performed on an APM NaCl:OH^- color center laser and an extension of an APM theory that sheds some light on these highly nonlinear systems. In particular, we show a novel hysteresis in this laser and explain the underlying physics

Keywords

sodium compounds; NaCl:OH; NaCl:OH^- color center laser; additive pulse modelocking; auxiliary cavity; hysteresis; multiple nonlinear phase shift; nonlinearity; overdriven system; passive modelocking; period doubling; solid state laser; Fiber lasers; Hysteresis; Laser modes; Laser theory; Nonlinear systems; Optical fiber theory; Optical pulses; Solid lasers; Solid modeling; Solid state circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1994. LEOS '94 Conference Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1470-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1994.586655

Filename

586655