Title :
Mode locking at and below the CW threshold
Author :
Shai Yefet ; Pe´er, Avi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Bar-Ilan Univ., Ramat-Gan, Israel
Abstract :
We explore experimentally a new regime of operation for mode locking in a Ti:Sapphire laser with enhanced Kerr nonlinearity, where the threshold for pulsed operation is lowered below the threshold for continuous-wave operation.
Keywords :
laser beams; laser mode locking; optical Kerr effect; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; Al2O3:Ti; CW threshold; Ti:Sapphire laser; continuous-wave operation threshold; enhanced Kerr nonlinearity; mode locking; pulsed operation threshold; Cavity resonators; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Mirrors; Power lasers; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
