Re: Shearing Interferometer with Ti-Sapph

Posted by Stephen Smith on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Shearing-Interferometer-with-Ti-Sapph-tp7585684p7585709.html

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From my previous life I measured CW TiS coherence lengths of a few cm, which matched the measured line widths of about 0.2 cm-1 or 6 GHz)  This would be pretty easy to find overlap in an interferometer.

The divergence and beam waist will shift between mode locked and CW operation too.