Energies above 30 μJ and average power beyond 100 W directly from a mode-locked thin-disk oscillator

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Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bauer, Dominik ^a   Schättiger, Farina ^a   Kleinbauer, Jochen ^b   Sutter, Dirk H ^b   Killi, Alexander ^b   Dekorsy, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b TRUMPF LASER UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMBIENT ATMOSPHERE; AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; AVERAGE POWER; LASER OSCILLATORS; MODE-LOCKED; PULSE LENGTH; REPETITION RATE; THIN-DISK LASERS;

EID: 85087594597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/assp.2011.atuc2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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