Femtosecond nd:glass lasers pumped by single-mode laser diodes and mode locked with carbon nanotube or semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 74-80

  Agnesi, Antonio ^a   Greborio, Alessandro ^b   Pirzio, Federico ^a   Ugolotti, Elena ^a   Reali, Giancarlo ^a   Choi, Sun Young ^b   Rotermund, Fabian ^b   Griebner, Uwe ^c   Petrov, Valentin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

^c MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optical pulse generation; solid lasers; ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVES; FEMTOSECOND OPERATION; FEMTOSECONDS; LASER ARCHITECTURE; LOW POWER; MODE-LOCKED; MODELOCKING; ND:GLASS; ND:GLASS LASER; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION; OUTPUT POWER; PHOSPHATE GLASS; PULSE DURATIONS; SINGLE MODE; SINGLE-MODE LASERS; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; SOLID LASER; TUNING RANGES; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

GLASS LASERS; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; PRISMS; RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; SILICATES;

NEODYMIUM;

EID: 84856947657     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2104941     Document Type: Article

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