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A laser system comprising a synchronously pumped picosecond dye laser with combined cavity-distributed feedback and a two-stage dye amplifier is described. The dependence of the laser pulse duration on the detuning of the cavity length, the pumping level of the active medium, and the pulse number in the pulse train was investigated. It is shown that the combination of the two types of feedback provides more than ten-fold shortening of the dye laser ultrashort pulse duration.
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B. I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 70, F. Skorina Ave., Minsk, 220072, Belarus. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 47–55, January–February, 1998.
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Chekhlov, O.V., Zaporozhchenko, V.A. Laser system based on a picosecond dye laser with combined feedback for spectroscopy. J Appl Spectrosc 65, 46–54 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02674787
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