Generation of subpicosecond pulses from a continuous-wave mode-locked Nd:YAG laser using a two-stage optical compression technique.
By using a two-stage optical-fiber grating pair pulse-compression technique, 1.06-microm pulses as short as 0.7 psec have been obtained from an actively mode-locked cw Nd:YAG laser. This represents an overall pulse-compression ratio of 113.
Gomes
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Photonics Group, Optics Section, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BZ, England.
Sibbett
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Taylor
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