Abstract

We report femtosecond mode locking of a Ti:sapphire laser synchronously pumped by a mode-locked, frequency-doubled Nd:YLF laser. Stable tunable 70-fs pulses are generated in a TEM₀₀ output without the need for stabilization of the cavity length.

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Femtosecond pulses from a continuously self-starting passively mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser

U. Keller, G. W. ’tHooft, W. H. Knox, and J. E. Cunningham
Opt. Lett. 16(13) 1022-1024 (1991)

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