Passively Mode-Locked Diode Laser With Optimized Dispersion Management

Author

Balzer, Jan C. ; Pilny, Rouven H. ; Dopke, Benjamin ; Klehr, Andreas ; Erbert, Gotz ; Trankle, Gunter ; Brenner, Carsten ; Hofmann, Martin R.

Author_Institution

Lehrstuhl fur Photonik und THz-Technol., Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Volume

21

Issue

6

fYear

2015

fDate

Nov.-Dec. 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

We investigate passively mode-locked diode lasers with external cavity for ultrashort pulse generation. Our strategy to achieve ultrashort pulses is to generate strongly chirped pulses with a maximized bandwidth and to compress them externally. By managing intracavity dispersion with an evolutionary algorithm, we obtain pulse widths as short as 278 fs following this approach. We analyze the bandwidth of the optimized pulses in comparison to the available net gain bandwidth of the diode laser device to derive further strategies for achieving shorter pulses.

Keywords

chirp modulation; evolutionary computation; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical dispersion; optical pulse generation; optimisation; semiconductor lasers; bandwidth maximization; chirped pulse generation; evolutionary algorithm; intracavity dispersion management optimization; passively mode-locked diode lasers; ultrashort pulse generation; Bandwidth; Cavity resonators; Chirp; Dispersion; Harmonic analysis; Laser mode locking; Semiconductor lasers; Mode-locked laser; semiconductor lasers; ultrafast pulse generation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-260X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSTQE.2015.2418225

Filename

7073596