Diode-pumped ultrashort-pulse generation based on Yb3+:Sc 2O3 and Yb3+:Y2O3 ceramic multi-gain-media oscillator

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3353-3361

  Tokurakawa, Masaki ^a   Shirakawa, Akira ^a   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^a   Yagi, Hideki ^b   Noriyuki, Meichin ^b   Yanagitani, Takagimi ^b   Kaminskii, Alexander A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b KONOSHIMA CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^c SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; DIODES; PUMPING (LASER); ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTERBIUM;

AVERAGE POWER; DIODE-PUMPED; GAIN MEDIA; LASER DIODE PUMPING; MODE-LOCKED LASER OPERATION; OPTICAL-TO-OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; PULSE DURATIONS; ULTRASHORT PULSE GENERATION;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 61549084051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.003353     Document Type: Article

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