Passive mode-locking of a diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser by intracavity SHG in PPKTP

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 5754-5762

  Iliev, Hristo ^a   Chuchumishev, Danail ^a   Buchvarov, Ivan ^a   Petrov, Valentin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; LASER RESONATORS; LOCOMOTIVES; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RAILROAD CARS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

DIODE-PUMPED; FREQUENCY-DOUBLING; HYBRID TECHNIQUES; INTENSITY-DEPENDENT; INTRA CAVITY FREQUENCY DOUBLING; INTRACAVITY SHG; LASER CAVITY; MODELOCKING; NONLINEAR MIRRORS; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PERIODICALLY POLED KTP; PICOSECONDS; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE SHORTENING; PULSE WIDTH; SELF-STARTING;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SOLID STATE LASER;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LENSES;

EID: 77949601333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005754     Document Type: Article

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