Ultrashort pulse generation from diode pumped mode-locked Yb3+: Sesquioxide single crystal lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2904-2909

  Tokurakawa, M ^a   Shirakawa, A ^a   Ueda, K ^a   Peters, R ^b   Fredrich Thornton, S T ^b   Petermann, K ^b   Huber, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER ACCESSORIES; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PULSE GENERATORS; PUMPING (LASER); SCANDIUM; YTTERBIUM;

AVERAGE POWER; DIODE-PUMPED; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER OPERATION; ULTRASHORT PULSE GENERATION;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 79951655461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.002904     Document Type: Article

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