Saturable Bragg reflector self-starting passive mode locking of a Cr4+:YAG laser pumped with a diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser

Optics Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 1171-1173

  Collings, B C ^a   Stark, J B ^b   Tsuda, S ^b   Knox, W H ^b   Cunningham, J E ^b   Jan, W Y ^b   Pathak, R ^b   Bergman, K ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

CHROMIUM DOPED YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET; KERR LENS MODE LOCKING; NEODYMIUM DOPED YTTRIUM VANADATE; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; SATURABLE BRAGG REFLECTORS; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 0030212560     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.21.001171     Document Type: Article

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