Diode-pumped passively mode-locked Nd:YAG laser with 10-W average power in a diffraction-limited beam

Optics Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 528-530

  Spuhler G J ^a   Paschotta, R ^a   Keller, U ^a   Moser, M ^b   Dymott, M J P ^c   Kopf, D ^c   Meyer, J ^c   Weingarten, K J ^c   Kmetec, J D ^d   Alexander, J ^d   Truong, G ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CSEM   (Switzerland)

^c Oclaro Technology Ltd Inc   (United Kingdom)

^d JDS UNIPHASE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

DIRECT-COUPLED PUMPS (DCP); FREQUENCY DOUBLING; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE-ABSORBER MIRRORS (SESAM);

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0242707519     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.24.000528     Document Type: Article

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