High-power, subpicosecond 10-µm pulse generation

Optics Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1983, Pages 514-516

  Corkum, P B ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

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EID: 0000021306     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.8.000514     Document Type: Article

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6. Either longer or shorter pulses (autocorrelation pulse widths as short as 500 fsec) are observed for other resonator conditions. The shortest pulses occur only when the intracavity losses are minimized. Then the output train becomes less reproducible. This irreproducibility appears to be due to intracavity breakdown, which is strong enough to modify the transmission and/or the divergence of the circulating pulse.