Simultaneous mode locking in a diode-pumped passively Q-switched Nd:YVO4 laser with a GaAs saturable absorber

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 33, 2001, Pages 6038-6041

  Chen, Yung Fu ^a,b   Huang, K F ^a,b   Tsai, S W ^a,c   Lan, Y P ^a,c   Wang, S C ^a,c   Chen, J ^d  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Electrophysics ^*  (Taiwan)

^c Department of Photonics   (Taiwan)

^d CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODES; LASER MODE LOCKING; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

PUMP POWER;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0012345789     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.006038     Document Type: Article

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