Abstract

Self-starting lasers with holographic cavity formed by dynamic gratings induced by generating beams themselves were realized using different nonlinear media: laser crystals, solid-state absorbers, liquid and photorefractive crystals, etc.^1-3 The generation of both a cw radiation and self-Q-switched nanosecond pulses was achieved. In this report we present the results of our investigation of the possibility tor self-mode locking in self-starting lasers with cavity formed with participation of dynamic gratings induced in a dye-doped polymer layer with fast optical nonlinearity of saturation absorption.

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