Direct diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:Sapphire laser

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 13677-13683

  Durfee, Charles G ^a   Storz, Tristan ^a   Garlick, Jonathan ^a,b   Hill, Steven ^a   Squier, Jeff A ^a   Kirchner, Matthew ^b   Taft, Greg ^b   Shea, Kevin ^b   Kapteyn, Henry ^b,d   Murnane, Margaret ^b,d   Backus, Sterling ^b,c  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b KMLabs Inc   (United States)

^c Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PUMPING;

AVERAGE POWER; CONTINUOUS WAVE MODES; DIODE-PUMPED; MODE-LOCKED; MODELOCKING; PULSEWIDTHS; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER;

LASER ACCESSORIES;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SOLID STATE LASER;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LENSES; TITANIUM;

EID: 84863754755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.013677     Document Type: Article

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