240-fs pulses with 22-W average power from a passively mode -locked thin-disk Yb:KY(WO4)2 laser

Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO - Technical Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 24-

  Brunner, F ^a   Sudmeyer T ^a   Innerhofer, E ^a   Paschotta, R ^a   Morier Genoud, F ^a   Keller, U ^a   Gao, J ^b   Contag, K ^b   Giesen, A ^b   Kisel, V E ^c   Shcherbitsky, V G ^c   Kuleshov, N V ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c BELARUSIAN NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PRISMS; YTTERBIUM;

MODE-LOCKED LASERS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0036457241     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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