Abstract

The relevance of ultrashort-pulse lasers to applications as varied as basic time-domain spectroscopy and digital optical communications is well established. For many of the former types of applications in particular, a facility of frequency-tunability is an especially attractive characteristic of the source. Thus modelocking methods that enable femtosecond pulses to be produced across a broad spectral range have been the subject of active research during the past several years.

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