Pulsing dynamics in Ytterbium based chirped-pulse oscillators

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 14314-14320

  Siegel, Martin ^a   Palmer, Guido ^a   Emons, Moritz ^a   Schultze, Marcel ^a   Ruehl, Axel ^b   Morgner, Uwe ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRP MODULATION; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; YTTERBIUM;

CHIRPED PULSE; ENERGY SCALING; EXPERIMENTAL PROBLEMS; GAIN MEDIA; MODE-LOCKED; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASERS; PULSE ENERGIES; YTTERBIUM-DOPED;

SOLID STATE OSCILLATORS;

YTTERBIUM;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 51849143803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014314     Document Type: Article

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