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Record 1 2024-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lasers and Masers
DEF

A technique in which the phase of each mode of oscillation in a laser is locked to those of the two adjacent modes, so that a fixed-phase relationship arises between all the modes, resulting in the emission at intervals of about a nanosecond of short trains of extremely short pulses whose duration is of the order of picoseconds.

CONT

Mode locking ... is a method ... to obtain ultra-short pulses from lasers, which are then called mode-locked lasers.

PHR

active mode locking, passive mode locking

French

Domaine(s)
  • Masers et lasers

Spanish

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