Investigation of Pulsed Coherent Injection Locking of a Mode-Locked Laser
| dc.contributor.advisor | Goldhar, Julius | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Liu, Arthur Wayne | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Electrical Engineering | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-06-22T05:35:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-06-22T05:35:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-04-25 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Pulsed coherent injection locking of a mode-locked laser was investigated. This method combines optically-driven mode-locking with coherent injection locking to produce pulsed light which is both synchronized and optically coherent with an injected signal. A high quality pulse train from a commercial laser was injected into a monolithic mode-locked laser fabricated at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences. A coherent output was achieved when the repetition rate was matched and the longitudinal modes were tuned correctly. Under these conditions we observed a dip in the reflected injecting signal, indicating destructive interference with the monolithic laser output. While this serves as a simple monitor for coherent injection, the coherently locked output spectrum was significantly broader than that of the injected signal and a small change in mode detuning produced a large spectral change. The variations of temporal and spectral characteristics of the monolithic laser were qualitatively explained with a simple theoretical model. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 967712 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/6827 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Engineering, Electronics and Electrical | en_US |
| dc.title | Investigation of Pulsed Coherent Injection Locking of a Mode-Locked Laser | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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