227-fs pulses from a mode-locked Yb:LuScO3 thin disk laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 10725-10730

  Baer, Cyrill R E ^a   Kränkel, Christian ^a   Heckl, Oliver H ^a   Golling, Matthias ^a   Südmeyer, Thomas ^a   Peters, Rigo ^b   Petermann, Klaus ^b   Huber, Günter ^b   Keller, Ursula ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCKS (FASTENERS);

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; EMISSION PEAKS; GAIN BANDWIDTH; GAIN MATERIALS; GROWTH DEFECTS; MODE-LOCKED; OUTPUT POWER; THIN-DISK LASERS;

YTTERBIUM;

EID: 67649246584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010725     Document Type: Article

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