Theoretical and experimental limits of cavity-dumping in passively mode-locked thin-disk oscillators

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 16860-16869

  Siegel, Martin ^a   Palmer, Guido ^a   Steinmann, Andy ^a   Pospiech, Matthias ^a   Morgner, Uwe ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER MODE LOCKING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DUMPING; DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES; THIN DISK OSCILLATORS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 37149009532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016860     Document Type: Article

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