Resolving the build-up of femtosecond mode-locking with single-shot spectroscopy at 90 MHz frame rate

Using time-stretch dispersive Fourier transform, scientists directly observe the spectro-temporal dynamics of the mode-locking transition on a single-shot basis over long record lengths of ∼900,000 consecutive pulses.

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