Picosecond pulses of variable duration from a high-power passively mode-locked Nd: YVO4 laser free of spatial hole burning

Optics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1644-1646

  Nadeau, Marie Christine ^a,b   Petit, Stéphane ^a   Baleou, Philippe ^a   Czarny, Romain ^b   Montant, Sébastien ^a   Simon Boisson, Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b Laser Solutions Unit   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODE-PUMPED; HIGH-POWER; LONG PULSE; OUTPUT COUPLERS; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE SHORTENING; REPETITION RATE; SPATIAL HOLE BURNING; TEM; TUNABILITIES;

NEODYMIUM; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; SOLID STATE LASER; TIME;

ELECTRODES; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954916675     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.001644     Document Type: Article

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