Optical pulse compression to 5 fs at a 1-MHz repetition rate
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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
Published on: February 6, 2014
Optics Letters
|January 15, 1997
Abstract:
We report on the characterization and compression of the white-light continuum produced by injection of a 13-fs pulse from a cavity-dumped self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser into a single-mode fiber. Pulses as short as 5 fs were generated at repetition rates up to 1 MHz.
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