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Intrapulse thermally induced wavelength shift in a distributed feedback dye laser

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It is shown that when a distributed feedback dye laser is used to generate a train of picosecond pulses, the narrow lines observed in the spectrum are not longitudinal modes, but are due to the intrapulse refractive index changes caused by the heating effect of the pumping pulse.

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    Present address: the Institute of Experimental Physics, Attila Jozsef University, Szeged, Hungary

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  1. Abteilung Laserphysik, Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, D-3400, Göttingen, Fed. Rep. Germany

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Bor, Z. Intrapulse thermally induced wavelength shift in a distributed feedback dye laser. Appl. Phys. 19, 39–41 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00900535

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