Self-starting mode-locked cavity-dumped femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser employing a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror

Optics Express

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 220-226

  Schneider, S ^a   Stockmann, A ^a   Schußlbauer W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Oclaro Technology Ltd Inc   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BRAGG CELLS; LASER OPTICS; LASER PULSES; PHASE MODULATION; PULSE GENERATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

PULSE REPETITION RATES; SAPPHIRE LASERS; SELF-PHASE MODULATION;

SAPPHIRE;

EID: 0011753580     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.6.000220     Document Type: Article

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