Passively mode-locked and cavity-dumped Yb:KY(WO4)2 oscillator with positive dispersion

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 16017-16021

  Palmer, Guido ^a   Emons, Moritz ^a   Siegel, Martin ^a   Steinmann, Andy ^a   Schultze, Marcel ^a   Lederer, Max ^b   Morgner, Uwe ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b High Q Laser Production GmbH   (Austria)

^c LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LASERS; SOLID STATE DEVICES; SOLITONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; YTTERBIUM;

CHIRPED OUTPUT PULSES; PULSE ENERGY; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH;

TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 36749056245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016017     Document Type: Article

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