Picosecond master-oscillator, power-amplifier system based on a mixed vanadate phase conjugate bounce amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 16382-16389

  Shiba, Naoki ^a   Morimoto, Yasuhito ^a   Furuki, Kenji ^a   Tanaka, Yuichi ^a   Nawata, Kouji ^a   Okida, Masahito ^a   Omatsu, Takashige ^a,b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUMPING (LASER);

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; DIODE SIDE PUMPED; EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; HIGH AVERAGE POWER; LASER SYSTEMS; PHASE CONJUGATES; PICOSECOND MASTER OSCILLATORS; POWER AMPLIFIER SYSTEM;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OSCILLOMETRY;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; OSCILLOMETRY;

EID: 54249170519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.016382     Document Type: Article

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