Title :
Dual colour cw mode-locking through soft-aperture and second order cascaded nonlinearity
Author :
Singh, S.P. ; Mondal, Sudipta ; Date, A. ; Mukhopadhyay, Saibal ; Datta, Prasanta Kumar
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Indian Inst. of Technol. Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
Abstract :
Stable cw mode-locked pulse train of dual wavelength with pulse duration of 9.5ps is achieved through soft aperturing of nonlinear mode in Nd:YVO4 gain medium caused by intra-cavity second order cascaded nonlinearity in KTP crystal.
Keywords :
laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser modes; laser stability; neodymium; optical harmonic generation; optical pulse generation; potassium compounds; solid lasers; two-photon processes; yttrium compounds; KTP; KTP crystal; Nd:YVO4 gain medium; YVO4:Nd; dual colour cw mode-locking; intracavity second order cascaded nonlinearity; nonlinear mode; soft aperturing; stable cw mode-locked pulse train; time 9.5 ps;
Conference_Titel :
Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chennai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4718-1