title: Intracavity pulse dynamics and stability for passively mode-locked lasers.
abstract: We derive a general characterization of the intracavity pulse dynamics for passively mode-locked fiber lasers based on the use of the variational principle. As a first application this method is used for an efficient simulation of the laser dynamics of stretched pulse and similariton lasers and evaluation of its stability.
authors: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachussetts 02139, USA.
authors: Cristian
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authors: Antonelli
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authors: Chen
authors: Franz X
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authors: Kartner