Yb-doped mixed sesquioxides for ultrashort pulse generation in the thin disk laser setup

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-18

  Beil, Kolja ^a   Saraceno, Clara J ^b   Schriber, Cinia ^b   Emaury, Florian ^b   Heckl, Oliver H ^b   Baer, Cyrill R E ^b   Golling, Matthias ^b   Südmeyer, Thomas ^c   Keller, Ursula ^b   Kränkel, Christian ^a   Huber, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISORDERED CRYSTALS; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; LASER MATERIALS; MODE-LOCKED LASER; PULSE DURATIONS; SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS; THIN-DISK LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSE GENERATION;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PULSE GENERATORS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

YTTERBIUM;

EID: 84889886507     PISSN: 09462171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-013-5433-2     Document Type: Article

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