Mode-locked Yb:YAG thin-disk oscillator with 41 μj pulse energy at 145 W average infrared power and high power frequency conversion

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 9698-9704

  Bauer, Dominik ^a,b   Zawischa, Ivo ^b   Sutter, Dirk H ^b   Killi, Alexander ^b   Dekorsy, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b TRUMPF LASER UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

AMBIENT ATMOSPHERE; FREQUENCY-DOUBLING; FUNDAMENTAL WAVELENGTH; HIGH-POWER; LASER OSCILLATORS; MODE-LOCKED; OUTPUT POWER; PULSE ENERGIES; REPETITION RATE;

YTTERBIUM;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; OSCILLOMETRY; SOLID STATE LASER;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MINIATURIZATION; OSCILLOMETRY;

EID: 84861112347     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.009698     Document Type: Article

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