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Control of radiation parameters

Frequency modulation of semiconductor disk laser pulses

I. O. Zolotovskii^a, D. A. Korobko^a, O. G. Okhotnikov<sup>ab

a</sup> Ulyanovsk State University
^b Optoelectronics Research Center, Tampere University of Technology

Abstract: A numerical model is constructed for a semiconductor disk laser mode-locked by a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM), and the effect that the phase modulation caused by gain and absorption saturation in the semiconductor has on pulse generation is examined. The results demonstrate that, in a laser cavity with sufficient second-order dispersion, alternating-sign frequency modulation of pulses can be compensated for. We also examine a model for tuning the dispersion in the cavity of a disk laser using a Gires–Tournois interferometer with limited thirdorder dispersion.

Keywords: semiconductor disk laser, frequency modulation of pulses.

PACS: 42.55.Px, 42.60.Fc

Received: 09.09.2014
Revised: 04.12.2014

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2015, 45:7, 628–634

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