1.3-μ m mode-locked disk laser with wafer fused gain and SESAM structures

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 748-750

  Rautiainen, Jussi ^a   Lyytikäinen, Jari ^a   Toikkanen, Lauri ^a   Nikkinen, Jari ^a   Sirbu, Alexei ^b   Mereuta, Alexandru ^b   Caliman, Andrei ^b   Kapon, Eli ^b   Okhotnikov, Oleg G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Mode locked lasers; Optical pumping; Quantumwell (QW) lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POWER; DISK LASERS; GAIN MEDIUM; HEAT SPREADERS; INP; INP MATERIAL; INTRACAVITIES; LONG WAVELENGTH; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODE-LOCKED LASERS; OPTICALLY PUMPED SEMICONDUCTOR DISK LASERS; PULSE SPECTRUM; QUANTUM WELL; QUANTUMWELL (QW) LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SDL; WAFER FUSION;

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); LASERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; PUMPS; SILICON WAFERS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; WAFER BONDING;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 77953251528     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2045494     Document Type: Article

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