LD pumped Yb:LuAG mode-locked laser with 7.63ps duration

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 11537-11542

  He, Jinping ^a   Liang, Xiaoyan ^a   Li, Jinfeng ^a   Yu, Haibo ^a   Xu, Xiaodong ^a   Zhao, Zhiwei ^a   Xu, Jun ^b   Xu, Zhizhan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

Author keywords

(140.3480) Lasers, diode pumped; (140.3615) Lasers, ytterbium; (140.4050) Mode locked lasers

Indexed keywords

LASERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; Q SWITCHED LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

CONTINUOUS WAVE OPERATION; DIODE-PUMPED; LASERS , DIODE-PUMPED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; REPETITION RATE; WAVELENGTH TUNING;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 67650538972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.011537     Document Type: Article

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