Diode pumped high power operation of a femtosecond laser inscribed Yb:YAG waveguide laser [Invited]

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 428-433

  Calmano, Thomas ^a   Siebenmorgen, Jörg ^a   Paschke, Anna Greta ^a   Fiebig, Christian ^b   Paschke, Katrin ^b   Erbert, Götz ^b   Petermann, Klaus ^a   Huber, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DBR; DIODE-PUMPED; EXTERNAL MIRRORS; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; HIGH-POWER OPERATION; INCIDENT PUMP POWER; LASER OSCILLATIONS; LASER PERFORMANCE; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; OPTICALLY PUMPED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; OUTPUT COUPLING; OUTPUT POWER; PUMP SOURCES; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; TAPERED DIODE LASERS; WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

LIGHT SOURCES; MIRRORS; PUMPS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEGUIDES; YTTERBIUM;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 80052871916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.000428     Document Type: Article

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