Generation of subpicosecond pulses from a continuous-wave mode-locked Nd:YAG laser using a two-stage optical compression technique
- 1 July 1985
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 10 (7) , 338-340
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.10.000338
Abstract
By using a two-stage optical-fiber grating pair pulse-compression technique, 1.06-μm 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.Keywords
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