Abstract

The chief advantage of the synchronously-pumped dye laser with a frequency-doubled cw mode-locked Nd:YAG is that it allows for synchronous amplification using pump pulses shorter than 100 ps.^1-2 The colliding pulse mode-locked dye laser, on the other hand, has the advantage of producing stable ultrashort pulses. We have developed a dye laser which is both synchronously pumped and colliding pulse mode-locked, yielding 90 fs pulses synchronized to an RF source with a jitter less than 20 ps.

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