PULSE SHORTENING IN A ND-GLASS LASER BY GAIN RESHAPING AND SOLITON FORMATION

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作者
KOPF, D
KARTNER, FX
WEINGARTEN, KJ
KELLER, U
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[1] Ultrafast Laser Physics, Institute of Quantum Electronics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Hönggerberg HPT, Zürich
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10.1364/OL.19.002146
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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We demonstrate that intracavity filtering and soliton formation in actively mode-locked lasers can lead to pulse shortening by as much as a factor of 30. Pulses as short as 310 fs have been generated from a Nd:glass laser that is mode locked only by an acousto-optic modulator.
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