Glass doped with PbS quantum dots as a saturable absorber for 1-μm neodymium lasers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 28-32

  Malyarevich, A M ^a   Savitski, V G ^a   Prokoshin, P V ^a   Posnov, N N ^a   Yumashev, K V ^a   Raaben, E ^b   Zhilin, A A ^b  

^a BELARUSIAN NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

^b VAVILOV STATE OPTICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL GLASS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

OPTICAL GAIN MEASUREMENTS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0002666978     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.000028     Document Type: Article

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