First mode-locked ceramic laser: Femtosecond Yb3+:Y 2O3 ceramic laser

Laser Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1375-1381

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b KONOSHIMA CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^c SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ERROR ANALYSIS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; Q SWITCHING; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS; RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; YTTERBIUM;

PULSE ENERGY; PULSE GENERATION; RADIUS OF CURVATURE (ROC); SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS (SESAM);

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 10244270679     PISSN: 1054660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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