Highly efficient femtosecond Yb:KYW laser pumped by single narrow-stripe laser diode

Electronics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 1108-1110

  Lagatsky, A A ^a   Rafailov, E U ^a   Leburn, C G ^a   Brown, C T A ^a   Xiang, N ^b   Okhotnikov, O G ^b   Sibbett, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL PUMPING;

NEAR-TRANSFORM LIMITED PULSES;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0042570700     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20030735     Document Type: Article

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