Laser apparatus is disclosed in which fundamental-wavelength optical
pulses delivered from a mode-locked laser resonator at a pulse-repetition
frequency (PRF) are converted to harmonic-wavelength pulses in an optical
delay loop. One example is disclosed in which the harmonic-wavelength
pulses are delivered directly from the delay loop. Another example is
disclosed in which the harmonic-wavelength pulses are divided by the
delay loop into a number of temporally spaced-apart replicas thereof, and
the delay loop delivers bursts of replicas of different one of the
harmonic wavelength pulses at a burst-repetition frequency equal to or a
multiple of the PRF of the resonator.