Title : 
Experimental study of the self-starting stochastic behavior of passive mode-locking
         
        
            Author : 
Vodonos, Boris ; Bekker, Alexander ; Smulakovsky, Vladimir ; Gordon, Ariel ; Gat, Omri ; Fischer, Baruch
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion, Haifa, Israel
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We present an experimental study of the self-starting probabilistic behavior of passively mode-locked lasers.
         
        
            Keywords : 
fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; ring lasers; stochastic processes; fiber ring laser; passively mode-locking laser; probabilistic behavior; pulse formation; self-starting stochastic behavior; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Laser theory; Lasers and electrooptics; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Stochastic processes;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-55752-795-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CLEO.2005.202095