Dual-gain SESAM modelocked thin disk laser based on Yb:Lu2O 3 and Yb:Sc2O3

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 18979-18986

  Schriber, Cinia ^a   Emaury, Florian ^a   Diebold, Andreas ^a   Link, Sandro ^a   Golling, Matthias ^a   Beil, Kolja ^b   Kränkel, Christian ^b   Saraceno, Clara J ^a,c   Südmeyer, Thomas ^c   Keller, Ursula ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; PULSE REPETITION RATE;

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; PULSE DURATIONS; REPETITION RATE; SHORT PULSE DURATION; SPECTRAL EMISSION; THIN-DISK LASERS;

YTTERBIUM;

EID: 84906089579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.018979     Document Type: Article

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