Passively modelocked diode-pumped erbium-ytterbium glass laser using a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror

Electronics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 567-569

  Spuhler G J ^a   Gallmann, L ^a   Fluck, R ^a   Zhang, G ^a   Brovelli, L R ^b   Harder, C ^b   Laporta, P ^c   Keller, U ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Uniphase Laser Enterprise AG   (Switzerland)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL GLASS; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS (SESAMS);

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032667747     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19990379     Document Type: Article

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