Single-cycle-pulse generation in a coherently mode-locked laser with an ultrashort cavity

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Single-cycle-pulse generation in a coherently mode-locked laser with an ultrashort cavity. / Arkhipov, Rostislav; Arkhipov, Mikhail ; Pakhomov, Anton; Babushkin, Ihar; Rosanov, Nikolay.

In: Physical Review A, Vol. 105, No. 1, 013526, 27.01.2022.

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title = "Single-cycle-pulse generation in a coherently mode-locked laser with an ultrashort cavity",

abstract = "We theoretically investigate the possibility of a passive mode-locking regime in a two-section laser with an ultrashort cavity of the length around ten wavelengths of the medium resonant transition or even less. It is shown that such a regime is enabled through the coherent mode-locking phenomena arising due to the self-induced transparency when the gain and absorption bandwidths do not impose any restrictions on the duration of the generated pulse. Under such conditions, a laser with an ultrashort cavity could produce output pulses with the terahertz (THz) repetition rate and the duration up to a single optical cycle. Moreover, several scaling rules were derived, which allow for further shortening of the output pulse duration with the respective scaling of the media parameters.",

keywords = "SELF-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY, POPULATION-DENSITY GRATINGS, DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS, LOCKING, PROPAGATION",

author = "Rostislav Arkhipov and Mikhail Arkhipov and Anton Pakhomov and Ihar Babushkin and Nikolay Rosanov",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 American Physical Society.",

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T1 - Single-cycle-pulse generation in a coherently mode-locked laser with an ultrashort cavity

AU - Arkhipov, Rostislav

AU - Arkhipov, Mikhail

AU - Pakhomov, Anton

AU - Babushkin, Ihar

AU - Rosanov, Nikolay

PY - 2022/1/27

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N2 - We theoretically investigate the possibility of a passive mode-locking regime in a two-section laser with an ultrashort cavity of the length around ten wavelengths of the medium resonant transition or even less. It is shown that such a regime is enabled through the coherent mode-locking phenomena arising due to the self-induced transparency when the gain and absorption bandwidths do not impose any restrictions on the duration of the generated pulse. Under such conditions, a laser with an ultrashort cavity could produce output pulses with the terahertz (THz) repetition rate and the duration up to a single optical cycle. Moreover, several scaling rules were derived, which allow for further shortening of the output pulse duration with the respective scaling of the media parameters.

AB - We theoretically investigate the possibility of a passive mode-locking regime in a two-section laser with an ultrashort cavity of the length around ten wavelengths of the medium resonant transition or even less. It is shown that such a regime is enabled through the coherent mode-locking phenomena arising due to the self-induced transparency when the gain and absorption bandwidths do not impose any restrictions on the duration of the generated pulse. Under such conditions, a laser with an ultrashort cavity could produce output pulses with the terahertz (THz) repetition rate and the duration up to a single optical cycle. Moreover, several scaling rules were derived, which allow for further shortening of the output pulse duration with the respective scaling of the media parameters.

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KW - POPULATION-DENSITY GRATINGS

KW - DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS

KW - LOCKING

KW - PROPAGATION

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