2-μm mode-locked semiconductor disk laser synchronously pumped using an amplified diode laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1332-1334

  Härkönen, Antti ^a   Rautiainen, Jussi ^a   Orsila, Lasse ^a   Guina, Mircea ^a   Rößner, Karl ^b   Hümmer, Michael ^b   Lehnhardt, Thomas ^b   Müller, Mirjam ^b   Forchel, Alfred ^b   Fischer, Marc ^c   Koeth, Johannes ^c   Okhotnikov, Oleg G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c NANOPLUS NANOSYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mode locked laser; Semiconductor disk lasers (SDLs); Synchronous pumping

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONIDE-BASED SEMICONDUCTORS; DIGITAL DATAS; DIODE LASERS; INTENSITY MODULATORS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODELOCKING; OPTICAL PULSE; PULSED SOURCE; PUMP PULSE; PUMP SIGNAL; PUMP SOURCES; SEMICONDUCTOR DISK LASER; SYNCHRONOUS PUMPING; TELECOM;

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ERBIUM; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LASERS; LITHIUM; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 65849294549     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.926921     Document Type: Article

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