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Period doubling and chaos in additive-pulse mode-locked lasers

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Abstract

We have observed period-doubling and the period-doubling route to chaos in an additive-pulse mode-locked (APM) color-center laser. The period-doubling behavior, which manifests itself as a train of pulses with alternating pulse heights, is stable, robust, and can be quite pronounced, with up to a 50% difference in pulse energies. Unless one monitors the pulse train carefully, this effect can go undetected because the pulse autocorrelation and optical spectrum give no apparent evidence that this behavior is occurring.

© 1993 Optical Society of America

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