Dual-wavelength mode-locked Yb: YAG ceramic laser in single cavity

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1479-1486

  Yoshioka, Hiroaki ^a   Nakamura, Shinki ^a   Ogawa, Takayo ^b   Wada, Satoshi ^b  

^a IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

AUTOCORRELATORS; CERAMIC LASERS; DUAL-WAVELENGTH; DUAL-WAVELENGTH MODE LOCKING; MODE-LOCKED; PULSE WIDTH; SINGLE CAVITY; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; YAG;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CERAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 75249107156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001479     Document Type: Article

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