title: Energy scalability of mode-locked oscillators: a completely analytical approach to analysis.
abstract: A completely analytical approach to analysis of energy-scalable ultrashort-pulse oscillators operating in both normal- and anomalous-dispersion regimes is developed. The theory, based on the approximated solutions of the generalized complex nonlinear Ginzburg-Landau equation allows the problem to be reduced to a purely algebraic model, so that the oscillator characteristics are easy to trace and are completely characterized by only two parameters defining the so-called master diagram of the pulse energy scalability. The proposed theory covers all types of energy-scalable oscillators: all-normal-dispersion fiber, chirped-pulse and thin-disk solid-state ones and is validated by numerical simulations.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Photonik, TU Wien, Gusshausstrasse 27/387, A-1040 Vienna, Austria. kalashnikov@tuwien.ac.at
authors.forename: Vladimir L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Kalashnikov
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Apolonski
mesh_terms: D000669:Amplifiers, Electronic; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004735:Energy Transfer; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D055096:Optical Devices; D012666:Semiconductors