Self-Sustaining Femtosecond Pulse Generation from an Actively Mode-Locked Nd:Glass Laser

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2001-01-28

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Lu, Wei, Li Yan, and Curtis R. Menyuk. "Self-Sustaining Femtosecond Pulse Generation from an Actively Mode-Locked Nd:Glass Laser" In Advanced Solid-State Lasers (2001), Paper WB16, WB16. Optica Publishing Group, 2001. https://doi.org/10.1364/ASSL.2001.WB16.

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Laser glass
Ti:sapphire lasers
Pulse shaping
Silicate glass
UMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF)
Femtosecond pulses
Laser beams

Abstract

We demonstrated the generation of self-sustaining femtosecond pulses from an actively mode-locked Nd: silicate glass laser. Pulses as short as 83 fs were obtained. Kerr-lens mode locking effect provided the stabilization mechanism. It was found that for an inhomogeneously broadened laser, a large negative group velocity dispersion is needed to mitigate the resonant dispersion effect and help formation of a soliton-like pulse.