Development of diode-pumped high average power continuous-wave and ultrashort pulse Yb:KGW lasers for nonlinear microscopy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6108, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Major, Arkady ^a   Cisek, Richard ^a   Barzda, Virginijus ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Diode pumped solid state lasers; Ultrafast lasers

Indexed keywords

MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTERBIUM;

DIODE-PUMPED SOLID-STATE LASERS; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 33646015685     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.641414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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