High-average-power self-starting mode-locked Ti: Sapphire laser with a broadband semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2001, Pages 3539-3541

  Sun, Jinghua ^a   Zhang, Ruobing ^a   Wang, Qingyue ^a   Chai, Lu ^a   Pang, Dongqing ^a   Dai, Jianming ^a   Zhang, Zhigang ^a   Torizuka, Kenji ^b   Nakagawa, Tadashi ^b   Sugaya, Takeyoshi ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER TUNING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

SAPPHIRE LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0037488170     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.003539     Document Type: Article

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