12-mJ, 350-fs Yb:GdCOB regenerative amplifier

Optics Communications

Volumn 199, Issue 1-4, 2001, Pages 181-187

  Druon, Frédéric ^a   Balembois, François ^a   Georges, Patrick ^a   Brun, Alain ^a   Bahk, Seung Whan ^b   Nees, John ^b   Mourou, Gérard ^b   Chériaux, Gilles ^c   Chambaret, Jean Paul ^c   Aka, Gérard ^a   Vivien, Daniel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

Author keywords

Diode pumped laser; Femtosecond laser; Laser amplifier; Solid state laser; Ytterbium doped crystal

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; CRYSTALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SOLID STATE LASERS;

REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIERS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0035889540     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(01)01550-4     Document Type: Article

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