Picosecond pulse generation and its simulation in a nonlinear optical mirror mode-locked laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2347-2352

  Datta, Prasanta Kumar ^a   Shivanand, ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Sourabh ^a   Agnesi, Antonio ^b   Lucca, Andrea ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; LASER PULSES; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MIRRORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

BEAM QUALITY PARAMETER; DICHRONIC OUTPUT COUPLER; DIODE LASER ARRAY; LITHIUM TRIBORATE CRYSTAL; PICOSECOND PULSE GENERATION;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 2342620134     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002347     Document Type: Article

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