Self-starting mode-locked laser with a nonlinear ring resonator
- 15 January 1991
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 16 (2), 88-90
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.16.000088
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.Keywords
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