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Mode-locking a Nd:silicate glass laser system by counterrunning pulses in a thin Kodak 9860 saturable absorber dye has produced considerably shorter pulses than that generated in a conventional standing-wave cavity configuration. The pulse duration of the pulse train was measured to be about 3.5 psec.
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Buchert et al. (1984) studied this question.
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