High-energy self-starting femtosecond Cr:forsterite oscillator operating at low repetition rate

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4630, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 82-88

  Shcheslavskiy, Vladislav ^a   Ivanov, Anatoliy ^b   Yakovlev, Vladislav V ^a   Markova, Elena ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Mode locked lasers; Optical resonators; Solid state lasers; Ultrafast lasers

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CRYSTALS; LASER PULSES; LASER RESONATORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

SELF-STARTING LASERS;

HIGH POWER LASERS;

EID: 0036407551     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458994     Document Type: Article

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