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Mode locking allows a laser with a broad gain bandwidth to generate femtosecond pulses. A mode-locked laser oscillates at the same time on a large number of modes. The fields of all modes are phase-locked to each other.
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Renk, K.F. (2012). Femtosecond Laser. In: Basics of Laser Physics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23565-8_13
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