30‐femtosecond light pulses at Bell Labs
DEC 01, 1982
DOI: 10.1063/1.2914878
The development of continuously pumped, mode‐locked dye lasers in the early 1970s made possible the first production of sub‐picosecond optical pulses in 1974. For the remainder of the decade, attempts to generate significantly shorter pulses of light were not particularly successful. Two new developments reported early last year have now been brought together by a group at Bell Labs to produce optical pulses only 30 femtoseconds long—
© 1982. American Institute of Physics
