Abstract

Various solutions have been proposed in recent years to the problem of producing two synchronous but independently tunable trains of ultrashort light pulses. We suggest that the use of a single saturable absorber situated at the midpoint of an antiresonant ring shared by the different cavities of two mode-locked lasers may offer another approach to the problem.

© 1986 Optical Society of America

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