Abstract

Pulses of 100-fsec duration are obtained by synchronous pumping of a colliding-pulse ring dye laser with a mode-locked Ar⁺-ion laser. Stable operation of the synchronously pumped colliding-pulse mode-locked laser over hours was obtained by a suitable choice of the distance between the gain and the absorber in combination with an appropriate pump-pulse sequence.

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Generation of 85-fsec pulses by synchronous pumping of a colliding-pulse mode-locked dye laser

T. Norris, T. Sizer, and G. Mourou
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(4) 613-615 (1985)

65-femtosecond pulse generation from a synchronously pumped dye laser without a colliding-pulse mode-locking technique

Masataka Nakazawa, Takashi Nakashima, Hirokazu Kubota, and Shigeyuki Seikai
Opt. Lett. 12(9) 681-683 (1987)

Subpicosecond-pulse development in a colliding-pulse mode-locking dye laser pumped by a pulsed xenon laser

Homayoon Ansari, Andrew Dienes, and John R. Whinnery
Opt. Lett. 10(1) 19-21 (1985)

Quasi-linear ring colliding-pulse mode-locked femtosecond laser using binary energy-transfer gain dye mixture

Margarita Mihailidi, Y. Budansky, Xin Miao Zhao, Yoshihiro Takiguchi, and R. R. Alfano
Opt. Lett. 13(11) 987-989 (1988)

Tunable passive colliding-pulse mode locking in a linear dye laser

Herman Vanherzeele, J.-C. Diels, and R. Torti
Opt. Lett. 9(12) 549-551 (1984)