10 W peak power from a gain-switched picosecond all-semiconductor laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5707, Issue , 2005, Pages 302-308

  Häring, Reto ^a   Schmitt, Thorsten ^a   Bellancourt, Aude Reine ^a   Lison, Frank ^a   Lauritsen, Kristian ^b   Erdmann, Rainer ^b   Kaenders, Wilhelm ^a  

^a TOPTICA PHOTONICS AG   (Germany)

^b PICOQUANT GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frequency conversion; Microscopy; MOPA; Nonlinear optics; Picosecond diode laser; Tapered amplifier

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; GAIN MEASUREMENT; LASER PULSES; LASER THEORY; LIGHT EMISSION; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; TISSUE;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FREQUENCY CONVERSION; MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIERS (MOPA); PICOSECOND DIODE LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 21844479552     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.591479     Document Type: Conference Paper

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