Frequency-doubled DBR-tapered diode laser for direct pumping of Ti:sapphire lasers generating sub-20 fs pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 12156-12163

  Müller, Andŕ ^a   Jensen, Ole Bjarlin ^a   Unterhuber, Angelika ^b   Le, Tuan ^b   Sting, Andreas ^b   Hasler, Karl Heinz ^c   Sumpf, Bernd ^c   Erbert, Götz ^c   Andersen, Peter E ^a   Petersen, Paul Michael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b FEMTOLASERS PRODUKTIONS GMBH   (Austria)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DIODES; EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSE GENERATORS; PUMPS; SAPPHIRE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

AUTOCORRELATION MEASUREMENT; DIODE PUMPED SOLID-STATE LASER; DIRECT PUMPING; ELECTRO-OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; FS PULSE; MAXIMUM OUTPUT; MODE-LOCKED; OPTICAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL SPECTRA; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PULSE WIDTH; PUMP POWER; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; SOLID STATE LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; TITANIUM;

EID: 79959474095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.012156     Document Type: Article

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