Mode locking of a continuous-wave titanium-doped sapphire laser using a linear external cavity.
The mode locking of a Ti:Al(2)O(3) laser with a moving extracavity mirror is described. With no active mode-locking element and with no nonlinear element in the external cavity, pulses of less than 40 psec have been directly generated from a cw laser. A possible mechanism for this novel mode-locking technique is discussed.
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