VECSEL gain characterization

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4136-4148

  Mangold, Mario ^a   Wittwer, Valentin J ^a   Sieber, Oliver D ^a   Hoffmann, Martin ^a   Krestnikov, Igor L ^b   Livshits, Daniil A ^b   Golling, Matthias ^a   Südmeyer, Thomas ^a   Keller, Ursula ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INNOLUME GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; PROBES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CONTINUOUS WAVES; FLUENCES; GAIN BANDWIDTH; HEAT SINK TEMPERATURE; MEASUREMENT SETUP; NON-LINEAR REFLECTIVITY; PROBE BEAM; PROBE PULSE; PULSE DURATIONS; PUMP POWER; SATURATION BEHAVIOR; SIMILAR DESIGN; SMALL-SIGNAL GAIN; SPECTRAL DEPENDENCES; VECSEL; VERTICAL EXTERNAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER; WAVELENGTH REGIMES;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 84857286652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004136     Document Type: Article

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