Abstract

Recent development of an ultrafast electro-optic deflector (EOD) has revealed that the EOD can be utilized to generating picosecond pulses from continuous light [1], an optical streak camera [2], a picosecond optical Fourier transformer [3], and so on. Here, we propose to use the EOD as an active modelocking modulator. Its loss modulation property is better than other modelocking modulators used ever. Stable l0ps pulses were experimentally generated from a purely active mode-locked Nd:glass laser using the EOD.

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