THERMAL EFFECTS IN LASER-PUMPED KERR-LENS MODELOCKED TI-SAPPHIRE LASERS

Authors
MEHENDALE M NELSON TR OMENETTO FG SCHROEDER WA
Citation
M. Mehendale et al., THERMAL EFFECTS IN LASER-PUMPED KERR-LENS MODELOCKED TI-SAPPHIRE LASERS, Optics communications, 136(1-2), 1997, pp. 150-159
Citations number
46
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304018
Volume
136
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
150 - 159
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(1997)136:1-2<150:TEILKM>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
Numerical beam propagation simulations are used to demonstrate that th e distributed thermal lensing, produced by the absorption of the pump laser in the gain medium, profoundly affects the operation of hard-ape rtured, Kerr-lens modelocked Ti:sapphire lasers. The pump-induced ther mal lensing is shown to shift and distort the resonator stability regi ons (even allowing the regions to overlap) and severely perturb the mo delocking mechanism in one of the stability regions.