Abstract
Suppression of Q-switch instabilities in an Er-doped waveguide laser, passively mode-locked with a saturable Bragg reflector, is demonstrated using an intracavity loss modulator, despite the strong pulse shaping per roundtrip and millisecond gain relaxation time.
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