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A mode-locked Nd-glass laser oscillator with intra-cavity pulse selection by a Pockels cell shutter is described. A regenerative amplifier system with a saturable absorber is used to shorten the selected light pulses from the master oscillator. Pulses were shortened from 8 ps to 1 ps.
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Penzkofer, A., Härtinger, F. & Wiedmann, J. Single picosecond-pulse generation in a mode-locked oscillator and regenerative amplifier system. Appl. Phys. B 26, 239–242 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00692544
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