SEsams for high-power oscillators: Design guidelines and damage thresholds

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-41

  Saraceno, Clara J ^a   Schriber, Cinia ^a   Mangold, Mario ^a   Hoffmann, Martin ^a   Heckl, Oliver H ^a   Baer, Cyrill R E ^a   Golling, Matthias ^a   Südmeyer, Thomas ^a   Keller, Ursula ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

High power lasers; modelocked lasers; semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs); thin disk lasers

Indexed keywords

ATTOSECOND SCIENCE; CATASTROPHIC DAMAGE; DAMAGE THRESHOLD; DESIGN GUIDELINES; FEMTOSECOND OSCILLATORS; FLUENCES; HIGH-POWER; INDUCED ABSORPTION; INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS; MODE-LOCKED LASER; NON-LINEAR REFLECTIVITY; NON-SATURABLE LOSS; OUTPUT POWER; PEAK INTENSITY; QUANTUM WELL; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; THIN-DISK LASERS;

REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 84856964508     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2092753     Document Type: Article

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