High peak power femtosecond pulse passively mode-locked vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1021-1023

  Wilcox, Keith G ^a   Quarterman, Adrian H ^a   Beere, Harvey ^b   Ritchie, David A ^b   Tropper, Anne C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mode locked; optically pumped; semiconductor laser; vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL)

Indexed keywords

A-CENTER; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; HIGH PEAK POWER; MODE-LOCKED; OPTICALLY PUMPED; OPTICALLY PUMPED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; OUTPUT POWER; OUTPUT PULSE; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PEAK POWER; REPETITION RATE; TRANSFORM-LIMITED PULSE; VECSEL; VERTICAL EXTERNAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FIBER LASERS; LASERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77953700594     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2049015     Document Type: Article

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