Spectroscopy and lasing of Yb-doped NaY(WO4)2: Tunable and femtosecond mode-locked laser operation

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 758-764

  García Cortés, Alberto ^a   Cano Torres, José M ^a   Serrano, María Dolores ^a   Cascales, Concepción ^a   Zaldo, Carlos ^a   Rivier, Simon ^b   Mateos, Xavier ^b,c   Griebner, Uwe ^b   Petrov, Valentin ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Crystals; Laser tuning; Optical pulse generation; Optical spectroscopy; Tungsten compounds; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (OPTICAL); LASER RESONATORS; LASER TUNING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PRISMS; PULSE COMPRESSION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTERBIUM;

ANALOGOUS PRISM PAIRS; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 34548038662     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2007.902769     Document Type: Article

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