Continuous-wave and mode-locked lasers on the base of partially disordered crystalline Yb3+:{YGd2[Sc2](Al 2Ga)O12 ceramics

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4390-4395

  Tokurakawa, M ^a,d   Kurokawa, H ^a   Shirakawa, Ae ^a   Ueda, K ^a   Yagi, H ^b   Yanagitani, T ^b   Kaminskii, A A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b KONOSHIMA CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^c SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^d JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; GALLIUM; LASERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SCANDIUM; YTTERBIUM;

AVERAGE POWER; CONTINUOUS WAVES; CONTINUOUS-WAVE LASER OPERATION; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODE-LOCKED LASER OPERATION; OPTICAL-TO-OPTICAL EFFICIENCY;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77749304313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004390     Document Type: Article

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