Ultrashort pulse generation from 1.56 μm modelocked VECSEL at room temperature

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 19902-19913

  Khadour, Aghiad ^a   Bouchoule, Sophie ^a   Aubin, Guy ^a   Harmand, Jean Christophe ^a   Decobert, Jean ^b   Oudar, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; MIRRORS; PULSE GENERATORS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CVD DIAMOND; FREE-RUNNING LASERS; GAIN STRUCTURES; GAINNAS; INGAALAS; INP; MODE-LOCKED; OPTICALLY PUMPED; OUTPUT POWER; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PUMP POWER; QUANTUM WELL; REPETITION FREQUENCY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; SINGLE QUANTUM WELL; TRANSFORM-LIMITED PULSE; ULTRASHORT PULSE GENERATION; VECSEL; VERTICAL EXTERNAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ARTICLE; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; TEMPERATURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; LENSES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77957008877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.019902     Document Type: Article

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