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Significant progress has recently been made in the generation of femtosecond dye laser pulses, in particular by means of the colliding pulse technique [1]. Some observed features of the mode-locked (ML) laser still remain largely unexplained, however. In a few cases, for instance, a strong negative frequency chirp has been experimentally observed [2] and attributed to a phenomenon of self-phase-modulation (SPM) arising from the saturation of the saturable absorber [3]. In other cases, the choice of the cavity mirrors [4] and their layout in the laser cavity [5] have been shown to influence the pulse duration.
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De Silvestri, S., Laporta, P., Svelto, O. (1984). Effects of Cavity Dispersion on Femtosecond Mode-Locked Dye Lasers. In: Auston, D.H., Eisenthal, K.B. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena IV. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 38. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82378-7_6
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