Passive femtosecond mode-locking and cw laser performance of Yb 3+: Sc2SiO5

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 16739-16744

  De Tan, Wei ^a   Tang, Dingyuan ^a   Xu, Xiaodong ^b   Zhang, Jian ^a   Xu, Changwen ^a   Xu, Feng ^b   Zheng, Lihe ^c   Su, Liangbi ^c   Xu, Jun ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SCANDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; YTTERBIUM;

1060 NM; CW LASING; CW-LASER; END-PUMPED; FEMTOSECONDS; FOURIER; MODE-LOCKED; MODELOCKING; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PULSE WIDTH; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; SINGLE EMITTER; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLID STATE LASER; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LIGHT; SEMICONDUCTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 77955647576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016739     Document Type: Article

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