Mode‐locking operation of a flash‐lamp‐pumped Nd:YAG laser at 1.064µm with Zakharov‐Manakov solitons
Author(s) -
Andreana M.,
Baronio F.,
Conforti M.,
Tonello A.,
De Angelis C.,
Couderc V.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
laser physics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.59
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1612-202X
pISSN - 1612-2011
DOI - 10.1002/lapl.201110071
Subject(s) - laser , optics , flash (photography) , materials science , mode locking , envelope (radar) , pulse (music) , soliton , repetition (rhetorical device) , flash lamp , modulation (music) , crystal (programming language) , physics , optoelectronics , nonlinear system , telecommunications , computer science , radar , linguistics , philosophy , quantum mechanics , detector , acoustics , programming language
We report experimental results on the mode‐locked operation of a flash‐lamp‐pumped Nd:YAG laser at 1.064 µm. The KTP crystal, which induces passive mode‐locking, exploits the existence and properties of spatial Zakharov‐Manakov soliton dynamics. A train of pulses with duration close to 100 ps, repetition rate of 136 MHz and modulation depth almost 100% has been produced. The mode‐locked pulses are modulated with a longer 180 ns pulse envelope with repetition rate of 10 Hz. (© 2011 by Astro Ltd., Published exclusively by WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA) (© 2011 by Astro Ltd., Published exclusively by WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)
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