Side pumped Nd:YAG slab laser mode-locked using multiple quantum well saturable absorbers

Laser Physics Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-33

  Kubecek V ^a   Zendzian, W ^b   Jabczynski, J K ^b   Kwiatkowski, J ^b   Jelinkova H ^a   Stintz, A ^c   Diels, J C ^c  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Diode pumping; Passive mode locking; Solid state laser

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749083043     PISSN: 16122011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lapl.200710076     Document Type: Article

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