Broadly tunable femtosecond mode-locking in a Tm:KYW laser near 2 μm

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 9995-10000

  Lagatsky, A A ^a   Calvez, S ^b   Gupta, J A ^c   Kisel, V E ^d   Kuleshov, N V ^d   Brown, C T A ^a   Dawson, M D ^b   Sibbett, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d BELARUSIAN NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PULSE GENERATORS; PULSE REPETITION RATE;

AVERAGE POWER; FEMTOSECONDS; INGAASSB; MODELOCKING; OUTPUT POWER; PULSE DURATIONS; QUANTUM WELL; REPETITION RATE; SELF-STARTING; SPECTRAL REGION; ULTRASHORT PULSE GENERATION;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 79955808430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.009995     Document Type: Article

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