1.5 μm GalnNAs semiconductor saturable absorber for passively modelocked solid-state lasers

Electronics Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 321-323

  Rutz, A ^a   Grange, R ^a   Liverini, V ^a   Haiml, M ^a   Schon S ^a   Keller, U ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DEMODULATION; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; ION IMPLANTATION; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLID STATE LASERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

BANDGAP; BRAGG REFLECTORS; PASSIVE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 16244363085     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20058272     Document Type: Article

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