Diode pumped passively mode-locked Yb:SSO laser with 2. 3ps duration

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 18354-18359

  Li, Jinfeng ^a   Liang, Xiaoyan ^a   He, Jinping ^a   Zheng, Lihe ^b   Zhao, Zhiwei ^b   Xu, Jun ^b  

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

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; TUNING; YTTERBIUM;

CONTINUOUS WAVE OPERATION; CW OPERATION; DIODE-PUMPED; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PICOSECONDS; PUMP POWER; REPETITION RATE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; WAVELENGTH TUNING;

PUMPING (LASER);

SILICON DIOXIDE; YTTERBIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; SOLID STATE LASER; TIME;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SILICON DIOXIDE; TIME FACTORS; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 77956378518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018354     Document Type: Article

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