Abstract

Last time great progress had been made in the field of the creation and optimization of passive mode-locked lasers producing high-stable trains of ultrashort pulses directly from the cavity of cw solid-state lasers. These systems have the modulators that contain the various nonresonant nonlinearities. Such nonlinearities are self-phase modulation, self-focusing, stimulated nonlinear birefringence, and nonlinear optical Kerr effect. All effects are successfully explored in non-inertial passive modulators for modelocking of cw solid-state lasers^1-2 and have been studied theoretically.^3-4

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