Phase Transition Theory for Passive Mode Locking of Lasers

Ariel Gordon; Baruch Fischer

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2002),
paper CML7

Phase Transition Theory for Passive Mode Locking of Lasers

Ariel Gordon and Baruch Fischer

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2002

Long Beach, California United States
19–22 May 2002
ISBN: 1-55752-706-7

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Ultrafast Pulse Generation: 2 (CML)

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A. Gordon and B. Fischer, "Phase Transition Theory for Passive Mode Locking of Lasers," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, M. Fejer, F. Leonberger, J. Fujimoto, and S. Newton, eds., OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2002), paper CML7.

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Abstract

Passive Mode Locking (PML) is an intrinsically nonlinear effect. Its nonlinear core is a saturable absorber, which favors pulses, since it attenuates them the least. Nevertheless, pulsation is achieved only when optical power reaches a certain threshold, so that the absorbers’ nonlinearity is “felt” strongly enough. This suggests that there is a mechanism in the laser that opposes mode locking, which needs to be overcome.

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