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Physical Properties of Coupled Cavity Lasers Used for Ultrashort Pulse Generation

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Ultrafast Phenomena VII

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Abstract

Coupling a mode-locked laser to a nonlinear external cavity has led [1–8] to the emission of ultrashort pulses whose duration can be reduced below 100 fs. The physical process leading to pulse narrowing has been identified [2, 9–11]: chirping of the pulse circulating in the coupled cavity produces an ultrafast modulation after interferometric recombination with the pulse circulating in the main cavity. The first analyses [2, 10–11] of this type of mode-locking have relied on restrictive assumptions (such as a smooth pulse shape) which cannot fully describe the variety of experimental observations. In this paper, we study the response of nonlinear interferometric reflectors and present the results of numerical modelling.

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  1. Equipe Laser et Optique Guidée (COPL), Département de Physique, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, G1K7P4

    M. Morin, Y. Champagne, F. Martin, R. Vallée, N. McCarthy & M. Piché

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Charles B. Harris Ph.D.

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Erich P. Ippen Ph.D.

  3. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Gerard A. Mourou Ph.D.

  4. Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, 91125, Pasadena, CA, USA

    Ahmed H. Zewail Ph.D.

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Morin, M., Champagne, Y., Martin, F., Vallée, R., McCarthy, N., Piché, M. (1990). Physical Properties of Coupled Cavity Lasers Used for Ultrashort Pulse Generation. In: Harris, C.B., Ippen, E.P., Mourou, G.A., Zewail, A.H. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena VII. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 53. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84269-6_17

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