High-power, femtosecond, thermal-lens-shaped Yb:KGW oscillator

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 8629-8640

  Berger, Joel A ^a   Greco, Michael J ^a   Schroeder, W Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; YTTERBIUM;

CRYSTAL GEOMETRY; DIODE-PUMPED; FEMTOSECONDS; FREQUENCY-DOUBLING; INTRINSIC EFFICIENCY; OUTPUT POWER; SATURABLE BRAGG REFLECTORS; THERMAL LENS;

PUMPING (LASER);

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAT; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEAT; LASERS; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 45249092254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008629     Document Type: Article

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