Kerr-lens mode locking without dispersion compensation
- Max Born Institut fuer Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, D-12489 Berlin (Germany)
We propose and theoretically investigate a novel operating regime of femtosecond Kerr-lens mode-locked solid-state lasers that avoids group-velocity dispersion compensation by use of a nonresonant semiconductor plate in the focused resonator section that provides an overall negative nonlinear refractive index per round trip. The saturable loss of the laser resonator with an effective self-defocusing nonlinearity is derived from a generalized {ital ABCD} matrix formalism, and the correspondingly calculated steady-state pulse parameters show that a Kerr-lens mode-locked laser with an overall negative nonlinear refractive index generates stable femtosecond pulses without any dispersion compensation. {copyright} {ital 1996 Optical Society of America.}
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 434727
- Journal Information:
- Optics Letters, Journal Name: Optics Letters Journal Issue: 19 Vol. 21; ISSN 0146-9592; ISSN OPLEDP
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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