40-fs Yb3+:CaGdAlO4 laser pumped by a singlemode 350-mW laser diode

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 10077-10082

  Agnesi, Antonio ^a   Greborio, Alessandro ^a   Pirzio, Federico ^a   Reali, Giancarlo ^a   Aus Der Au, Juerg ^b   Guandalini, Annalisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b High Q Laser Innovation GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; YTTERBIUM;

DIODE-PUMPED; MODELOCKING; MULTIMODE BEAMS; MW OUTPUT; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PUMP SOURCES; SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; SINGLE MODE; SINGLE TRANSVERSE MODES; YTTERBIUM LASERS;

PUMPING (LASER);

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLID STATE LASER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84861136229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010077     Document Type: Article

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