Dual-wavelength passively mode-locked Nd:LuYSiO5 laser with SESAM

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3984-3989

  Cong, Zhenhua ^a,b   Tang, Dingyuan ^b   De Tan, Wei ^b   Zhang, Jian ^b   Xu, Changwen ^b   Luo, Dewei ^b   Xu, Xiaodong ^c   Li, Dongzhen ^c   Xu, Jun ^d   Zhang, Xingyu ^a   Wang, Qingpu ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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

^d SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS;

ABSORBED PUMP POWER; DIODE END-PUMPED; DUAL-WAVELENGTH; FS PULSE; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODE-LOCKED PULSE; MODELOCKING; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PULSE WIDTH; REPETITION RATE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; ULTRAFAST PULSE;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; SOLID STATE LASER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE;

EID: 79952180949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.003984     Document Type: Article

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