Passively mode-locked Yb:YAG thin-disk laser with pulse energies exceeding 13 μJ by use of an active multipass geometry

Optics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 726-728

  Neuhaus, Joerg ^a,b   Kleinbauer, Jochen ^a   Killi, Alexander ^a   Weiler, Sascha ^a   Sutter, Dirk ^a   Dekorsy, Thomas ^b  

^a TRUMPF LASER UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MULTIPASS GEOMETRY; HIGH-ENERGY PICOSECOND PULSES; THIN-DISK LASER OSCILLATORS;

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 42449125998     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.33.000726     Document Type: Article

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