Cavity configurations for soft-aperture Kerr-lens mode locking and multiple-period bifurcations in Ti:sapphire lasers

Ja Hon Lin; Ming Dar Wei; Wen Feng Hsieh; Hsiao Hua Wu

doi:10.1364/JOSAB.18.001069

Cavity configurations for soft-aperture Kerr-lens mode locking and multiple-period bifurcations in Ti:sapphire lasers

Ja Hon Lin, Ming Dar Wei, Wen Feng Hsieh, Hsiao Hua Wu

Department of Photonics

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We find that soft-aperture Kerr-lens mode locking (SAKLM) in a Ti:sapphire laser always takes place around certain discrete cavity configurations accompanied by peculiar beam patterns. By correlating the superposition of proper transverse modes to the observed beam patterns and fitting the beat frequencies to the resonance equation, we discovered that the patterns for SAKLM are formed by phase locking of the fundamental mode with specific degenerate transverse modes that occur near different degenerate cavity configurations. As predicted by the stability analysis, period-3 and period-2 SAKLM does occur around the 1/3- and 1/4-degenerate cavity configurations, which cannot be fully explained in terms of total mode locking of TEM ₀₀ and TEM₀₁ modes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1069-1075
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
Volume	18
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.18.001069
Publication status	Published - 2001 Aug

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Cavity configurations for soft-aperture Kerr-lens mode locking and multiple-period bifurcations in Ti:sapphire lasers

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