Comparative study between conventional and diffusion-bonded Nd-doped vanadate crystals in the passively mode-locked operation

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 9518-9524

  Huang, Y J ^a   Huang, Y P ^a   Liang, H C ^a   Su, K W ^a   Chen, Y F ^a   Huang, K F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; NEODYMIUM;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HOLE BURNING; MODE-LOCKED PULSE; ND-DOPED; ND:GDVO; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PULSE BROADENING;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 77952067069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.009518     Document Type: Article

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