Compact efficient multi-GHz Kerr-lens mode-locked diode-pumped Nd:YVO 4 laser

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 21149-21154

  Liang, H C ^a   Chen, Ross C C ^a   Huang, Y J ^a   Su, K W ^a   Chen, Y F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER ACCESSORIES; LASER MODE LOCKING; LOCKS (FASTENERS); OPTICAL PUMPING; PUMPING (LASER);

COMPACT LASERS; DIODE-PUMPED; KERR LENS MODE LOCKING; LASER SYSTEMS; LINEAR CAVITY; MULTIPLE PULSE; OUTPUT POWER; SINGLE PULSE;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODE LASER; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; LENSES; LIGHT; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 57349183122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021149     Document Type: Article

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