High speed electro-optical cavity dumping of mode-locked laser oscillators

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1916-1922

  Killi, Alexander ^a   Dörring, Jochen ^a   Morgner, Uwe ^a   Lederer, Max J ^b   Frei, Jürgen ^b   Kopf, Daniel ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b High Q Laser Production GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; LIGHT SOURCES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS; THIN FILMS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; YTTERBIUM;

LASERS, DIODE-PUMPED; LASERS, SOILD-STATE; MODE-LOCKED LASERS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRAFAST TECHNOLOGY;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 17444372800     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.001916     Document Type: Article

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