Ultralow-pump-threshold, femtosecond Cr3+:LiSrAlF6 laser pumped by a single narrow-stripe AlGaInP laser diode

Optics Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 1639-1641

  Valentine, G J ^a   Hopkins, J M ^a   Loza Alvarez, P ^a   Kennedy, G T ^a   Sibbett, W ^a   Burns, D ^b   Valster, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BATTERIES; LASER BEAMS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

FEMTOSECOND LASER; LASER CAVITY;

OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS;

EID: 0031275284     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.22.001639     Document Type: Article

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