Semiconductor saturable absorber mirror passively Q-switched fiber laser near 2 μm

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 5664-5667

  Yang, Weiqiang ^a   Hou, Jing ^a   Zhang, Bin ^a   Song, Rui ^a   Liu, Zejin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LASER MIRRORS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; INCIDENT PUMP POWER; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PUMP CONFIGURATION; Q-SWITCHED PULSE; SINGLE PULSE ENERGY; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS;

EID: 84865607032     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.005664     Document Type: Article

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