Ultrafast disk lasers and amplifiers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8235, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sutter, Dirk H ^a   Kleinbauer, Jochen ^a   Bauer, Dominik ^a   Wolf, Martin ^a   Tan, Chuong ^a   Gebs, Raphael ^a   Budnicki, Aleksander ^a   Wagenblast, Philipp ^a   Weiler, Sascha ^b  

^a TRUMPF LASER UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH   (Germany)

^b Trumpf Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Mode locked Lasers; Thin Disk Amplifiers; Ultrafast Lasers; Ytterbium YAG

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; TECHNOLOGY; ULTRAFAST LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

CONTINUOUS WAVE OUTPUT POWER; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; MARKET INTRODUCTION; MODE-LOCKED LASER; SECOND GENERATION; THIN DISK; WELDING APPLICATIONS; YAG;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 84901322479     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.906905     Document Type: Conference Paper

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