Diode-pumped passively mode-locked Nd:YAG laser at 1338 nm with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 36, 2011, Pages 6713-6716

  Yang, Ying ^a   Xu, Jin Long ^a   He, Jing Liang ^a   Yang, Xiu Qin ^a   Zhang, Bing Yuan ^a   Yang, He ^a   Liu, Shan De ^a   Zhang, Bai Tao ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LASER MIRRORS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ABSORBED PUMP POWER; AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; DIODE END-PUMPED; INFORMATION TRANSMISSION; ND : YAG LASERS; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; REPETITION RATE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS;

EID: 84255189970     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.006713     Document Type: Article

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