PASSIVE STABILIZATION OF A SYNCHRONOUSLY MODE-LOCKED NACL COLOR-CENTER LASER BY COHERENT PHOTON SEEDING

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MOLLMANN, K
GELLERMANN, W
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[1] Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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10.1364/OL.19.000490
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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We use coherent photon seeding to passively stabilize a synchronously mode-locked NaCl color-center laser. This results in the generation of essentially transform-limited picosecond pulses with average power levels of as high as 1.3 W in the 1.5-1.7-mum range. In addition, the pulse energy fluctuations are reduced by as much as 1 order of magnitude.
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