Abstract

By synchronously pumping a linear-cavity dye laser that has as one end mirror an antiresonant ring containing a thin saturable absorber jet, we have developed a colliding-pulse mode-locked laser, which is capable of being synchronously amplified. Pulse widths of 85 fsec have been obtained. The dye laser is pumped by the frequency-doubled output of a cw mode-locked Nd:YAG laser. This makes synchronous amplification with short pulses possible and provides the additional advantages of increased reliability, ruggedness, and amplitude stability.

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Stable operation of a synchronously pumped colliding-pulse mode-locked ring dye laser

M. C. Nuss, R. Leonhardt, and W. Zinth
Opt. Lett. 10(1) 16-18 (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)

Generation of 36-fsec pulses near 775 nm from a colliding-pulse passively mode-locked dye laser

P. Georges, F. Salin, and A. Brun
Opt. Lett. 14(17) 940-942 (1989)

29-fsec pulse generation from a linear-cavity synchronously pumped dye laser

Hirokazu Kubota, Kenji Kurokawa, and Masataka Nakazawa
Opt. Lett. 13(9) 749-751 (1988)

Generation of sub-100-fsec pulses tunable near 497 nm from a colliding-pulse mode-locked ring dye laser

P. M. W. French and J. R. Taylor
Opt. Lett. 13(6) 470-472 (1988)