Femtosecond diode-pumped solid-state laser with a repetition rate of 4.8 GHz

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4248-4253

  Pekarek, Selina ^a   Klenner, Alexander ^a   Südmeyer, Thomas ^a,b   Fiebig, Christian ^c   Paschke, Katrin ^c   Erbert, Götz ^c   Keller, Ursula ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; POTASSIUM; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS; YTTERBIUM;

DIODE PUMPED SOLID STATE LASER; DIODE-PUMPED; FEMTOSECONDS; MODELOCKING; OPTICAL-TO-OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; OUTPUT POWER; PEAK POWER; POTASSIUM-GADOLINIUM TUNGSTATE; PULSE DURATIONS; REPETITION RATE; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; YTTERBIUM-DOPED;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 84857255961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004248     Document Type: Article

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