Abstract

A laser with a ring resonator that incorporates a nonlinear antiresonant loop is proposed and analyzed. With computer simulation it is shown that the mode-locking process is self-starting and that, when the laser is properly designed, gain-bandwidth-limited pulses can be obtained. Passive mode-locked, bistable, and chaotic solutions are found to depend on the design parameters of the model.

© 1991 Optical Society of America

Unidirectional ring resonators for self-starting passively mode-locked lasers

K. Tamura, J. Jacobson, E. P. Ippen, H. A. Haus, and J. G. Fujimoto
Opt. Lett. 18(3) 220-222 (1993)

Self-starting of passively mode-locked lasers

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Self-starting passive mode locking

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Resonant frequency doubling of a self-starting, coupled-cavity, mode-locked Ti:Al₂O₃ laser

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