Amplification of a low-power picosecond Nd:YVO4 Laser by a diode-laser side-pumped grazing-incidence Slab amplifier

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 772-776

  Agnesi, Antonio ^a   Carrà, Luca ^a   Pirzio, Federico ^a   Reali, Giancarlo ^a   Tomaselli, Alessandra ^a   Scarpa, Daniele ^a   Vacchi, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Laser amplifiers; Mode locked lasers; Solid lasers; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVES; DOUBLE PASS; GRAZING INCIDENCE; LASER AMPLIFIERS; LOW POWER; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODE-LOCKED OSCILLATORS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OPTICAL-TO-OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; PICOSECONDS; PULSE DURATIONS; SEED PULSE; SIDE-PUMPED; SINGLE PASS; SMALL-SIGNAL GAIN; SOLID LASER; TEM; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

AMPLIFICATION; LASERS; NEODYMIUM; PUMPING (LASER);

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 34247191687     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2006.878187     Document Type: Article

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