High-average-power (>20-W) Nd:YVO4 lasers mode locked by strain-compensated saturable Bragg reflectors

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 919-926

  Burns, D ^a   Hetterich, M ^a   Ferguson, A I ^a   Bente, E ^a   Dawson, M D ^a   Davies, J I ^b   Bland, S W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b Epitaxial Prod International Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG CELLS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LASER DAMAGE; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

DAMAGE THRESHOLDS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0034409801     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.000919     Document Type: Article

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