210-μJ picosecond pulses from a quasi-CW Nd:YVO4 grazing-incidence two-stage slab amplifier package

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 952-957

  Agnesi, Antonio ^a   Carrá, Luca ^a   Dallocchio, Paolo ^a   Pirzio, Federico ^a   Reali, Guanearlo ^a   Tomaselli, Alessandra ^a   Scarpa, Daniele ^a   Vacchi, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Laser amplifiers; Mode locked lasers; Solid lasers; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION NOISE; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; ENERGY EXTRACTION; GRAZING INCIDENCE; LASER AMPLIFIERS; LASER-DIODE SIDE-PUMPED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; PICO-SECOND PULSE; SEED PULSE; SMALL-SIGNAL GAIN; SOLID LASER; SPATIAL QUALITY; TIME DURATION; TWO STAGE; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LASERS; LIGHT; NEODYMIUM; PUMPING (LASER);

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77949694879     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2008.2001241     Document Type: Article

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