Diode-pumped passively mode-locked multiwatt Nd:GdVO4laser with a saturable Bragg reflector

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 27, 2003, Pages 5496-5499

  He, Jing Liang ^a,b   Lee, Chao Kuei ^a   Huang, Jung Y John ^a   Wang, Shing Chung ^a   Pan, Ci Ling ^a   Huang, Kai Feng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

BRAGG REFLECTORS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0141953052     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.005496     Document Type: Article

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