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Broad-area semiconductor lasers are employed in many high-power applications, however, their spatio-temporal dynamics is complex and intrinsically unstable due to the interaction of several transverse lasing modes. A dynamical and…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-17 S. Bittner , M. Sciamanna

We demonstrate a novel approach to achieve wavelength-tunable ultrashort pulses from an all-fiber mode-locked laser with a saturable absorber based on nonlinear Kerr beam clean-up effect. This saturable absorber was formed by a single-mode…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-23 Shanchao Ma , Baofu Zhang , Qiurun He , Jing Guo , Zhongxing Jiao

A technique is proposed to generate attosecond pulse trains of radiation from a Free-Electron Laser amplifier. The optics-free technique synthesises a comb of longitudinal modes by applying a series of spatio-temporal shifts between the…

Optics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. R. Thompson , B. W. J. McNeil

We propose a system that exploits the fundamental features of topological photonics and synthetic dimensions to force many semiconductor laser resonators to synchronize, mutually lock, and under suitable modulation emit a train of…

Mode locking in lasers is a collective effect, where due to a weak coupling a large number of frequency modes lock their phases to oscillate in unison, forming an ultrashort pulse in time. We demonstrate an analogous collective effect in…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-03 Leon Bello , Marcello Calvanese Strinati , Shai Ben-Ami , Avi Pe'er

Hybrid mode-locking has been widely used in enhancing pulse quality, however how the hybrid two mode-locking techniques work remains unclear. In this paper, we experimentally investigate three pulse formation mechanisms in saturable…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-17 Chenyue Lv , Baole Lu , Jintao Bai

The response of a passive mode-locking mechanism, where gain and spectral filtering are saturated with the energy and loss saturated with the power, is examined under the presence of higher order effects. These include third order…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 Theodoros P. Horikis , Mark J. Ablowitz

We report on large energy pulse generation in an erbium-doped fiber laser passively mode-locked with atomic layer graphene. Stable mode locked pulses with single pulse energy up to 7.3 nJ and pulse width of 415 fs have been directly…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-01 H. Zhang , D. Y. Tang , L. M. Zhao , Q. L. Bao , K. P. Loh

We studied experimentally and theoretically the interaction of lasing modes in random media. In a homogeneously broadened gain medium, cross gain saturation leads to spatial repulsion of lasing modes. In an inhomogeneously broadened gain…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Cao , Xunya Jiang , Y. Ling , J. Y. Xu , C. M. Soukoulis

We report on an environmentally stable, Yb-doped, all-normal dispersion, mode-locked fibre laser that is capable of creating broadband pulses with ultra-low repetition rates. Specifically, through careful positioning of fibre sections in an…

Mode-locked fiber lasers are rich dynamical systems that may present several different types of pulsed operating modes, depending on external control parameters such as pump power. A systematic experimental characterization of such regimes…

Dual-comb lasers from which asynchronous ultrashort pulses can be simultaneously generated have recently become an interesting research subject. They could be an intriguing alternative to the current dual-laser optical-frequency-comb source…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-13 Ya Liu , Xin Zhao , Guoqing Hu , Cui Li , Bofeng Zhao , Zheng Zheng

In this letter, we investigate a Yb-doped mode-locked fiber oscillator that uses coherent pulse division and recombination to avoid excessive nonlinear phase shifts. The mode-locking mechanism of the laser is based on the accumulation of a…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-05 Marvin Edelmann , Yi Hua , Gabor Kulscar , Franz X. Kärtner

We experimentally study a fiber-based optical ring cavity integrated with a mechanical resonator mirror and an optical amplifier. The device exhibits a variety of intriguing nonlinear effects including synchronization and self-excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Eyal Buks , Roei Levi , Ivar Martin

We present the first statistical mechanics study of a passively mode locked laser which includes all the main physical processes, saturable absorption, Kerr nonlinearity, parabolic gain filtering and group velocity dispersion, assuming the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Omri Gat , Ariel Gordon , Baruch Fischer

We propose in this communication an experimental study of the relaxation oscillations behavior in mode-locked lasers. The semiconductor self-pulsating laser diode is composed by two gain sections, without saturable absorber. It is made of…

Integrated modelocked lasers with high power are of utmost importance for next generation optical systems that can be field-deployable and mass produced. Here we study fully integrated modelocked laser designs that have the potential to…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Neetesh Singh , Erich Ippen , Franz X. Kärtner

The ability to control the laser modes within a subwavelength resonator is of key relevance in modern optoelectronics. This work deals with the theoretical research on optical properties of a PT--symmetric nano--scaled dimer formed by two…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-07 Mauro Cuevas , Mojtaba Karimi , Carlos J Zapata-Ropdriguez

The generation of optically coherent ultrashort pulses by mode-locked lasers has revolutionized advancements in modern science and technology. These pulses often arise from the formation of dissipative solitons, which emerge due to a…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-08 Jesús Yelo-Sarrión , François Leo , Simon-Pierre Gorza

We report on the characterization of the timing stability of passively mode-locked discrete mode diode laser sources. These are edge-emitting devices with a spatially varying refractive index profile for spectral filtering. Two devices with…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 David Bitauld , Simon Osborne , Stephen O'Brien