Transient Effects in the Mode Locking of Nd3+-Glass Lasers
- 15 September 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 19 (6) , 167-169
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1653869
Abstract
It is proposed that limitations in the pulse width obtainable from ``mode‐locked'' Nd3+‐glass lasers result from the generation of only a limited number of side bands for each of the lasing frequencies. Experimental results in support of this model are discussed.Keywords
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