Mode locking with cross-phase and self-phase modulation
- 1 April 1991
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 16 (7), 502-504
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.16.000502
Abstract
Cross-phase and self-phase modulation are used for self-sustained mode locking of a high-power neodymium glass fiber laser. Stable pulses with a FWHM as short as 70 fs and pulse energies of as much as 1 nJ are generated at a wavelength of 1.064 μm.Keywords
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