Abstract

I report the observation of high-order solitonlike femtosecond pulses directly generated in an absorber jet-induced self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser. A soliton period of ~1 MHz was observed with a nearly linear dependence on the intracavity dispersion.

© 1993 Optical Society of America

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