• DocumentCode
    422166
  • Title

    Passive stabilisation of an SBR-mode-locked Nd:KGW laser by nonlinear absorption in indium phosphide

  • Author

    Cerny, Pavel ; Valentine, Gareth ; Burns, David ; McEwan, Kenneth

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Photonics, Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, UK
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2004
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, that passive stabilisation using inverse saturable absorption in indium phosphide expands the parameter range for stable continuous wave mode-locking in a diode-pumped passively mode-locked Nd:KGW laser.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; indium compounds; laser mode locking; laser stability; neodymium; nonlinear optics; optical pumping; optical saturable absorption; solid lasers; InP; KGd(WO/sub 4/)/sub 2/:Nd; SBR-mode-locked Nd:KGW laser; indium phosphide; nonlinear absorption; passive stabilisation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-777-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1361634