Low threshold and high power output of a diode-pumped nonlinear mirror mode-locked Nd:GdVO4 laser

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 6323-6329

  Lin, Ja Hon ^a   Yang, Wen Hsun ^a   Hsieh, Wen Feng ^a   Lin, Kuei Huei ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CRYSTALS; DIODES; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PUMPING (LASER);

HIGH-PEAK POWER; LASER PERFORMANCE; NONLINEAR MIRRORS; THRESHOLD PUMP POWER;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 24144434702     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006323     Document Type: Review

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