Dynamics and self-modelocking of a titanium-sapphire laser with intracavity frequency shifted feedback

Optics Communications

Volumn 123, Issue 4-6, 1996, Pages 790-800

  Bonnet, G ^b   Balle, S ^b   Kraft, Th ^a,b   Bergmann, K ^b  

^a Coherent GmbH ^*  (Germany)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; BANDWIDTH; DYNAMICS; HYSTERESIS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT MODULATORS; PULSE MODULATION; PUMPING (LASER);

ACOUSTOOPTIC MODULATOR; FREQUENCY SHIFTED FEEDBACK; PUMP POWER; RATE EQUATION MODEL; SELFSTARTING MODELOCKING; TITANIUM SAPPHIRE LASER;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0030081018     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0030-4018(95)00591-9     Document Type: Article

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