Femtosecond Cr:LiSAF and Cr:LiCAF lasers pumped by tapered diode lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 20444-20461

  Demirbas, Umit ^a,d   Schmalz, Michael ^a   Sumpf, Bernd ^b   Erbert, Götz ^b   Petrich, Gale S ^c   Kolodziejski, Leslie A ^c   Fujimoto, James G ^c   Kärtner, Franz X ^c   Leitenstorfer, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

^c Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^d ANTALYA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DIODES; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PUMPS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

AVERAGE POWER; CONTINUOUS WAVES; CR:LISAF; ELECTRICAL-TO-OPTICAL CONVERSIONS; FEMTOSECONDS; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; LONG PULSE; MODE-LOCKED; OUTPUT POWER; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSE TRAIN; PUMP SOURCES; PUMPING SCHEMES; REPETITION RATE; SIDE-PUMPED; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; SPECTRAL REGION; TAPERED DIODE LASERS; TAPERED LASER DIODES;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 80053948248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.020444     Document Type: Article

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