Multipulse operation of a Ti:sapphire laser mode locked by an ion-implanted semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror

M. J. Lederer; B. Luther-Davies; H. H. Tan; C. Jagadish; N. N. Akhmediev; J. M. Soto-Crespo

doi:10.1364/JOSAB.16.000895

Multipulse operation of a Ti:sapphire laser mode locked by an ion-implanted semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror

M. J. Lederer^*, B. Luther-Davies, H. H. Tan, C. Jagadish, N. N. Akhmediev, J. M. Soto-Crespo

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Abstract

Multipulse operation was demonstrated with a Ti:sapphire laser mode-locked by a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. Widely separated double, triple, and quadruple pulses with irregular spacing were observed. In addition, closely coupled states were also found that could be attributed to interplay between saturable absorber and filter losses, saturated gain and the coherent interaction of solitons. These observations, as well as the mechanisms in the transitions from single to multipulse states are explained within the framework of the generalized complex Ginzburg-Landau equation as the laser master equation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	895-904
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
Volume	16
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.16.000895
Publication status	Published - Jun 1999

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