MULTI-KILOWATT TRANSFORM-LIMITED PICOSECOND PULSES FROM A CAVITY-DUMPED SYNCHRONOUSLY-PUMPED DYE-LASER USING SELF-STABILIZATION

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作者
COTTER, D
机构
[1] British Telecom Research Laboratories, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich
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10.1016/0030-4018(91)90525-I
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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A simple self-stabilisation techniuqe is described for use with a cavity-dumped sychronously-pumped dye laser. Multi-kilowatt Fourier-transform-limited picosecond pulses are produced that exhibit a high degree of phase coherence into the far wings. It is shown experimentally that the underlying mechanism is an automatic self-phase locking process.
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