Active-passive mode locking of a flashlamp-pumped dye laser |
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Authors: | Burgess M. Fedosejevs R. Jaanimagi P. Richardson M. |
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Affiliation: | National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; |
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Abstract: | A simple dye laser system for obtaining relatively high energy, synchronized, picosecond pulses is described. The novel combination of active and passive mode locking within a single flashlamp-pumped dye laser cavity produced 2.5 μJ, sub-10 ps pulses capable of being synchronized to an external event with better than 100 ps accuracy. The single pulse energy was subsequently increased to 40 μJ by using a larger twin flashlamp-pumped oscillator. |
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