An extended cavity femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser pumped by low cost diode lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1265-1269

  Prasankumar, R P ^a   Hirakawa, Y ^a   Kowalevicz Jr , A M ^a   Kaertner, F X ^a   Fujimoto, J G ^a   Knox, W H ^b  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CHROMIUM; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; PUMPING (LASER);

DIODE PUMPED LASERS; SATURABLE BRAGG REFLECTOR (SBR); SPATIAL MODE DIODES; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 2942735179     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.001265     Document Type: Article

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