Widely tunable Yb:KYW laser with a volume Bragg grating

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1003-1010

  Jacobsson, Björn ^a   Hellström, Jonas E ^a   Pasiskevicius, Valdas ^a   Laurell, Fredrik ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LASER BEAMS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER TUNING; YTTERBIUM;

OUTPUT POWER; RETROREFLECTORS; VOLUME BRAGG GRATING; YB:KYW LASERS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 33846863604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001003     Document Type: Article

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