Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:KYW laser at 4.6-GHz repetition rate

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 12191-12197

  Endo, Mamoru ^a,b   Ozawa, Akira ^a,b   Kobayashi, Yohei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

BOW TIE; FEMTOSECOND OSCILLATORS; FEMTOSECONDS; LASER-DIODE-PUMPED; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; OUTPUT POWER; REPETITION RATE; RING CAVITIES; SPECTRUM WIDTH;

LASER ACCESSORIES;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SOLID STATE LASER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LENSES; MICROWAVES;

EID: 84861495267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.012191     Document Type: Article

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