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A diode-pumped passively mode-locked Nd: CTGG disordered crystal laser has been experimentally demonstrated for the first time to our knowledge. Mode locked with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror, the laser generated 5.2 ps pulses at a repetition rate of 88 MHz. After intracavity dispersion compensation, the mode-locked pulses were shortened to 4.3 ps. Multiple emission wavelengths of the Nd:CTGG laser could be synchronously mode locked under dispersion compensation.
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Xie, G.Q., Tang, D.Y., Tan, W.D. et al. Diode-pumped passively mode-locked Nd:CTGG disordered crystal laser. Appl. Phys. B 95, 691–695 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-009-3471-6
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