Self-starting mode-locked Cr:Forsterite laser with semiconductor saturable Bragg reflector

Optics Communications

Volumn 136, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 27-30

  Guerreiro, P T ^a   Ten, S ^a   Slobodchikov, E ^b,d   Kim, Y M ^c   Woo, J C ^c   Peyghambarian, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SEMENOV INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cr:forsterite laser; Mode locking; Saturable Bragg reflector

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; PRISMS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

CHROMIUM DOPED FORSTERITE LASER; KERR LENS MODE LOCKING; SATURABLE BRAGG REFLECTION;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 0031104439     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(96)00681-5     Document Type: Article

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