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Chirp in a mode-locked ring dye laser

Joël Fontaine, W. Dietel, Jean‐Claude Diels

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics · 1983 · 51 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

Measurements performed on the output of a mode-locked ring laser show the pulses to be chirped. The down-frequency modulation is evidenced by experiments of pulse compression in glass, for various concentrations of saturable absorbers.

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Intracavity pulse compression with glass: a new method of generating pulses shorter than 60 fsec

W. Dietel, Joël Fontaine, Jean‐Claude Diels · Optics Letters · 1983 · 138 citations

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Generation of optical pulses shorter than 0.1 psec by colliding pulse mode-locking

R. L. Fork, B. I. Greene, Charles V. Shank · Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics · 1981 · 132 citations

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Generation of pulses shorter than 70 fs with a synchronously-pumped CW dye laser

G. Mourou, T. Sizer · Optics Communications · 1982 · 73 citations

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Pulses in the femtosecond range from a cw dye ring laser in the colliding pulse mode-locking (CPM) regime with down-chirp

W. Dietel, E. Döpel, D. Kühlke et al. · Optics Communications · 1982 · 59 citations

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