All optical passive synchronization of two independent laser oscillators

Author

Seitz, W. ; Schibli, T.R. ; Morgner, U. ; Kartner, F.X. ; Lange, C.H. ; Richter, W. ; Braun, B.

Author_Institution

High-Frequency & Quantum Electron. Lab., Karlsruhe Univ., Germany

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Abstract

Summary form only given. A novel scheme for passive synchronization of two independently mode-locked laser oscillators in a master slave configuration is presented. As an example the scheme is used to synchronize a picosecond mode-locked Nd:YVO/sub 4/ laser (at 1064 nm) as the slave and a femtosecond mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser (around 850 nm) as the master oscillator. All optical synchronization is achieved by modulating the intracavity losses of the slave laser with the pulse train of the master oscillator.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; laser transitions; optical losses; solid lasers; synchronisation; 1064 nm; 850 nm; Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/:Ti; Nd:YVO/sub 4/ laser; Ti:sapphire laser; YVO/sub 4/:Nd; all optical synchronization; independently mode-locked laser oscillators; intracavity losses modulation; master oscillator; master slave configuration; mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser; passive synchronization; picosecond mode-locked laser; pulse train; slave laser; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Pulse measurements; Pulse modulation; Semiconductor lasers; Solid lasers; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1034375

Filename

1034375