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Transient evolution and steady-state emission from passively mode-locked lasers

K. P. Komarov


Abstract: An analytic determination is made of the direction of evolution of a field in a laser with an instantaneous-response saturable absorber and with a gain which follows changes in the average (over the axial period) intensity. It is shown that in the case of mode locking a laser system goes over, irrespective of the initial conditions, to a regime of steady-state emission of one pulse per axial period.

UDC: 621.373.826

PACS: 42.60.Fc, 42.60.Da, 42.50.Gy, 42.55.Ah, 42.60.Lh

Received: 16.11.1984
Revised: 25.03.1985

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1986, 16:1, 105–107

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