SESAMs for high-power femtosecond modelocking: Power scaling of an Yb:LuScO3 thin disk laser to 23 W and 235 fs

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 20288-20300

  Saraceno, Clara J ^a   Heckl, Oliver H ^a   Baer, Cyrill R E ^a   Golling, Matthias ^a   Südmeyer, Thomas ^a   Beil, Kolja ^b   Kränkel, Christian ^a,b   Petermann, Klaus ^b   Huber, Günter ^b   Keller, Ursula ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; YTTERBIUM;

ANTIRESONANT; AVERAGE POWER; DAMAGE THRESHOLD; FEMTOSECONDS; HIGH-POWER; KEY ELEMENTS; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED OSCILLATORS; MODELOCKING; POWER-SCALING; PULSE DURATIONS; SHORT PULSE DURATION; SHORT PULSE GENERATION; THIN-DISK LASERS; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 80053987169     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.020288     Document Type: Article

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