175 fs Tm:Lu2O3 laser at 2.07 μm mode-locked using single-walled carbon nanotubes

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5313-5318

  Schmidt, Andreas ^a   Koopmann, Philipp ^b,c   Huber, Günter ^b   Fuhrberg, Peter ^c   Choi, Sun Young ^d   Yeom, Dong Il ^d   Rotermund, Fabian ^d   Petrov, Valentin ^a   Griebner, Uwe ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c LISA laser products OHG   (Germany)

^d Ajou University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

BULK LASERS; DOPING CONCENTRATION; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SPECTRAL RANGE; TRANSFORM-LIMITED PULSE;

LASERS;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ABSORPTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

EID: 84857550757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.005313     Document Type: Article

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