Diode-pumped mode-locked Yb3+:Y2O3 ceramic laser

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2911-2916

  Shirakawa, A ^a   Takaichi, K ^a   Yagi, H ^a   Bisson, J F ^a   Lu, J ^a   Musha, M ^a   Ueda, K ^a   Yanagitani, T ^b   Petrov, T S ^c   Kaminskii, A A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b KONOSHIMA CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^d SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MIRRORS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

LASER MATERIALS; REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIERS; SELF MODE LOCKING;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0346829447     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.002911     Document Type: Article

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