Abstract
The self-starting condition of passively mode-locked lasers, including those locked by additive-pulse mode locking, is reexamined. A quantitative model is developed for a threshold intensity for self-starting based on the hypothesis that spurious reflections have to be overcome by coherent injection signals of sufficient amplitude.
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