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Two laser systems were developed by the ASACUSA collaboration of CERN to carry out spectroscopy experiments on antiprotonic atoms. One of these was a continuous-wave pulse-amplified dye laser which was frequency-stabilized to a femtosecond frequency comb. The other generated 700-ps-long laser pulses of wavelengths λ = 266 and 532 nm using two stimulated Brillouin scattering cells filled with water.
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Hori, M., Dax, A. Development of precise nanosecond and picosecond dye lasers for spectroscopy of antiprotonic atoms. Hyperfine Interact 194, 195–199 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-009-0050-5
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