Frontiers in passively mode-locked high-power thin disk laser oscillators

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 7054-7065

  Baer, Cyrill R E ^a   Heckl, Oliver H ^a,b   Saraceno, Clara J ^a   Schriber, Cinia ^a   Kränkel, Christian ^a,c   Südmeyer, Thomas ^a,b   Keller, Ursula ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS;

AVERAGE POWER; FEMTOSECOND LASER OSCILLATORS; HIGH AVERAGE POWER; HIGH PULSE ENERGY; HIGH-POWER; MODE-LOCKED; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PULSE ENERGIES; SINGLE-TRANSVERSE-MODE OPERATION; STABLE MODE LOCKING; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE; THIN-DISK LASERS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

AMPLIFIER; DIODE LASER; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OSCILLOMETRY; REVIEW;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; MINIATURIZATION; OSCILLOMETRY;

EID: 84859402040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.007054     Document Type: Article

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