Generation of 90-nJ pulses with a 4-MHz repetition-rate Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:Al2O3 laser operating with net positive and negative intracavity dispersion

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 560-562

  Cho, S H ^a   Kartner F X ^a,c   Morgner, U ^a,c   Ippen, E P ^a   Fujimoto, J G ^a   Cunningham, J E ^b   Knox, W H ^b  

^a Massachusetts Inst of Technology ^*  (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-ENERGY PULSES;

ALUMINA; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER RESONATORS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; SOLID STATE LASERS; TITANIUM;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0000339508     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.000560     Document Type: Article

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