When pumped beyond a population inversion threshold, which mechanism limits the bandwidth of a pulsed dye laser?

💡 Explanation

Gain saturation effects selectively amplify the strongest frequencies, progressively narrowing the emission bandwidth, because the available excited-state population depletes for other frequencies. Therefore, the pulsed bandwidth narrows rather than being broadened thermally; lower-gain frequencies become suppressed.

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