Title :
Stabilization of nonlinear mirror mode-locking by inverse saturable absorber
Author :
Datta, P.K. ; Mukhopadhyay, S. ; Samanta, G.K. ; Das, S.K. ; Agnesi, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. & Meteorol., Indian Inst. of Technol., Kharagpur, India
Abstract :
Intra-cavity third harmonic generation is used to realize inverse saturable absorption required to suppress passive Q-switching instability in a nonlinear mirror mode-locked laser providing peak power of 918W with pulse width of 29ps.
Keywords :
Q-switching; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; optical harmonic generation; optical saturable absorption; 29 ps; 918 W; intra-cavity third harmonic generation; nonlinear mirror mode-locking; passive Q-switching; saturable absorber; Laser beams; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Solid lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.202034
