Femtosecond synchronously mode-locked vertical-external cavity surface-emitting laser

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1810-1821

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Ackemann, Thorsten ^a   Schmid, Marc ^a   Langford, Nigel ^a   Ferguson, Allister I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER PULSES; PHASE MODULATION;

DETUNING; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 33644745266     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001810     Document Type: Article

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