Ytterbium-doped fibre laser Q-switched by a cantilever-type micro-mirror

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 22064-22071

  Fabert, Marc ^a   Desfarges Berthelemot, Agnès ^a   Kermène, Vincent ^a   Crunteanu, Aurelian ^a   Bouyge, David ^a   Blondy, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; MACHINE DESIGN; MIRRORS; NANOCANTILEVERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHING; YTTERBIUM;

ACTUATING FREQUENCY; MICRO MIRROR; MICRO OPTO ELECTRO MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MODULATION RATES; NOVEL DESIGN; REPETITION RATE; SHORT LASER PULSE; YTTERBIUM-DOPED;

LASER MIRRORS;

EID: 58149119676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.022064     Document Type: Article

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