Passive mode locking of a laser with a nonlinear fiber reflector.
A nonlinear mirror in the form of a fiber-loop reflector with nonreciprocity is proposed as a passive mode locker. The mode-locking process occurs as a result of the interference of counterpropagating pulses, when they are properly chirped in the fiber loop. With a computer simulation, we study a simple one-cavity model and find stable solutions.
Bulushev
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Dianov
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Okhotnikov
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