Abstract
Ultrafast tunable pulses between 1300 and 1550 nm are useful for the study of materials and the characterization of devices used in optical communication systems. In addition to color center lasers which operate primarily at 77 K, room-temperature dye lasers based on IR 26 dye have been reported as a tunable source around 1300 nm.1–3 Recently picosecond pulses tunable between 1180 and 1530 nm have been generated by using an actively/passively mode-locked pulse train followed by an amplifier to pump the near IR dye no. 5 in a dye cell.4 We report a cw synchronously pumped mode-locked no. 5 dye laser using a flowing dye jet. It is pumped by the compressed pulses of a cw mode-locked Nd:YAG laser.
© 1989 Optical Society of America
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