Femtosecond VECSEL with tunable multigigahertz repetition rate

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 23538-23543

  Sieber, Oliver D ^a   Wittwer, Valentin J ^a   Mangold, Mario ^a   Hoffmann, Martin ^a   Golling, Matthias ^a   Südmeyer, Thomas ^a   Keller, Ursula ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER RESONATORS; MIRRORS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; STATISTICS;

CAVITY DESIGN; CAVITY LENGTH; CENTER WAVELENGTH; FEMTOSECONDS; FLUENCES; LASER CAVITY; MODELOCKING; OPTICAL SAMPLING; OUTPUT POWER; PULSE DURATIONS; REPETITION RATE; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TUNING RANGES; VECSEL; VERTICAL EXTERNAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 80755167759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.023538     Document Type: Article

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