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Broadly tunable femtosecond solid-state laser sources

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The techniques of coupled-cavity modelocking and self-modelocking in which intensity-induced nonlinear effects are exploited have been reviewed for broad-band gain media. Particular emphases have been placed upon the archetypical colour-centre and titanium-sapphire laser configurations in which these techniques were first demonstrated and subsequent refinements are set in context. A femtosecond optical parametric oscillator pumped by a self-mode-locked titanium-sapphire laser has also been described as an exemplar of a practical means of extending the source tunability into the mid-infrared spectral region.

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  1. J. F. Allen Physics Research Laboratories, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, North Haugh, KY169SS, St. Andrews, Fife, UK

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Sibbett, W., Grant, R.S. & Spence, D.E. Broadly tunable femtosecond solid-state laser sources. Appl. Phys. B 58, 171–181 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01081310

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