CW mode-locked dye lasers for ultra fast spectroscopic studies
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The continuous mode-locked dye laser is beginning to assume a role of considerable importance as a tool for the study of ultra fast photochemical and photophysical processes. The purpose of this article is to describe methods of generation of ultra short pulses from argon or krypton ion laser pumped jet-stream dye lasers, some of the pulses properties, and to give examples of applications that they have so far found in this rapidly expanding field. The attractiveness of the cw mode-locked dye laser stems from three basic properties:
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