Temporal and Spectral Development of Mode Locking in a Ring-Cavity Nd:Glass Laser
- 15 November 1971
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 19 (10) , 420-423
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1653755
Abstract
Temporal and spectral development of mode locking was investigated in a ring-cavity Nd : glass laser. It was found that whenever a mode-locked pulse formed in the ring cavity a satellite pulse would develop traveling in the opposite direction. The varying delay of the satellite pulse permitted time-resolved spectroscopy of the early stages of mode-locked oscillation. It was found that the spectral distribution broadens from 3 to 80 Å because of selfphase modulation inside the laser cavity.Keywords
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