A wavelength tuneable 2-ps pulse VECSEL

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8242, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Morris, Oliver J ^a   Wilcox, Keith G ^a   Head, C Robin ^a   Turnbull, Andrew P ^a   Mosley, Peter J ^b   Quarterman, Adrian H ^a   Kbashi, Hani J ^a   Farrer, Ian ^c   Beere, Harvey E ^c   Ritchie, David A ^c   Tropper , Anne C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing; Heralded single photon; Mode locked; Vecsel; Wavelength tuneable

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POWER; BREWSTER'S ANGLE; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; FUSED SILICA ETALON; MODE-LOCKED; NORMAL INCIDENCE; PULSE DURATIONS; REPETITION RATE; SINGLE PHOTONS; TIME BANDWIDTH PRODUCT; TUNING RANGES; VECSEL; VERTICAL EXTERNAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER; WAVELENGTH TUNING;

ETALONS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 84858667245     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.908337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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