Femtosecond pulses from a modelocked integrated external-cavity surface emitting laser (MIXSEL)

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 24904-24911

  Mangold, Mario ^a   Wittwer, Valentin J ^a   Zaugg, Christian A ^a   Link, Sandro M ^a   Golling, Matthias ^a   Tilma, Bauke W ^a   Keller, Ursula ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTINUOUS WAVES; LOW-TEMPERATURE GROWN; OPTICALLY PUMPED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; PASSIVE MODE-LOCKING; SATURATION FLUENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE; VERTICAL EXTERNAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS;

EID: 84886392092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.024904     Document Type: Article

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