• DocumentCode
    688957
  • 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
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833337
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=688957