Low-cost, single-mode diode-pumped Cr:Colquiriite lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 14374-14388

  Demirbas, Umit ^a   Li, Duo ^a   Birge, Jonathan R ^a   Sennaroglu, Alphan ^a,b   Petrich, Gale S ^a   Kolodziejski, Leslie A ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a   Fujimoto, James G ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; EFFICIENCY; LASER MIRRORS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LOCKS (FASTENERS); PULSE REPETITION RATE; SAPPHIRE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS;

ABSORBED PUMP POWER; ELECTRICAL-TO-OPTICAL CONVERSIONS; MODE LOCKED OPERATIONS; PULSE ENERGIES; REPETITION RATE; SINGLE MODE LASER DIODE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER;

PUMPING (LASER);

CHROMIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLID STATE LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHROMIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 68349125378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014374     Document Type: Article

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