Pulse repetition rate scaling from 5 to 100 GHz with a high-power semiconductor disk laser

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 6099-6107

  Mangold, Mario ^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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; FEMTOSECOND OPERATION; HIGH POWER SEMICONDUCTOR LASER; LONG PULSE DURATIONS; PASSIVE MODE-LOCKING; SEMICONDUCTOR DISK LASER; SEMICONDUCTOR LAYERS; VERTICAL EXTERNAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 84896364549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.006099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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