A series of experiments and numerical simulations have been carried out studying the transition between stable and unstable behaviour observed in a mode-locked argon laser when the cavity length is decreased from the optimum value associated with stable operation. Good qualitative agreement is found between the experiments and the numerical simulations, and the pulse characteristics in this regime are found to be determined by the interplay of the coherent atom - field interaction, the cavity detuning, the time-varying loss of the mode-locker and the recovery of the atomic inversion due to repumping.
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