Compact Nd: YVO4 lasers with pulse repetition rates up to 160 GHz

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1331-1338

  Krainer, Lukas ^b   Paschotta, Rüdiger ^b   Lecomte, Steve ^b   Moser, Michael ^b   Weingarten, Kurt J ^a,b   Keller, Ursula ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diode pumped lasers; High pulse repetition; Mode locked lasers; Semiconductor absorbers

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PUMPING; Q SWITCHING; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

PULSE REPETITION RATES;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0036793360     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2002.802967     Document Type: Article

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