80-fs Nd:silicate glass laser pumped by a singlemode 200-mW diode

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 10098-10103

  Agnesi, Antonio ^a   Greborio, Alessandro ^a   Pirzio, Federico ^a   Reali, Giancarlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; GLASS; NEODYMIUM; PRISMS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SILICATES;

CW OPERATION; FS PULSE; MW OUTPUT; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; SILICATE GLASS; SINGLE MODE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

GLASS LASERS;

SILICATE;

ARTICLE; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; SOLID STATE LASER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; SILICATES;

EID: 77952677546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.010098     Document Type: Article

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