Abstract
A bulk Nd:glass laser has been mode locked, for the first time to our knowledge, with a linear external cavity that includes a vibrating mirror. By use of intracavity dispersion compensation, pulses of 300-fs duration have been generated. The effect of the mirror movement is attributed to a start mechanism of the passive coupled-cavity mode locking and yields an expression for the optimal mirror velocity that is in qualitative agreement with the experiment.
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