Generation of 2.8 ps pulses by mode-locking a Nd:GdVO4 laser with defocusing cascaded Kerr lensing in periodically poled KTP

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 5270-5278

  Holmgren, S J ^a   Pasiskevicius, V ^a   Laurell, F ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; GADOLINIUM COMPOUNDS; LENSES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

CASCADDED KERR LENS; MODE-LOCKED LASERS; PULSE SHORTENING MECHANISM; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR OPTICS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 22744447507     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.005270     Document Type: Article

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