Pulse colliding in a self-mode-locked ring-cavity Ti:sapphire laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 522-525

  Wang, Ching Yue ^a   Chai, Lu ^a   Yoo, Weili ^a   Yoo, Kwong Mow ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; LASER PULSES; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; RING LASERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

PULSE COLLISION; RING CAVITY; TITANIUM DOPED SAPPHIRE LASE; TRANSIENT GRATING;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0031701820     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.000522     Document Type: Article

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