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This chapter discusses the fundamentals of modelocking and dispersion control and concentrates on the specific technology of semiconductor saturable absorbers and their implementation in modelocked lasers. The end of the chapter reviews a selection of representative modern ultrafast lasers, which serve as examples of how the techniques discussed in the preceding sections may be implemented in real systems.

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