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Palm-top-size, 1.5 kW peak-power, and femtosecond (160 fs) diode-pumped mode-locked Yb+ 3: KY (WO 4) 2 solid-state laser with a semiconductor saturable …

Yamazoe et al., 2010

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Yamazoe S
Katou M
Adachi T
Kasamatsu T
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We report a palm-top-size femtosecond diode-pumped mode-locked Yb^+ 3: KY (WO_4) _2 solid-state laser with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror utilizing soliton mode locking for shortening the cavity to 50 mm. An average output power of 680 mW and a pulse …
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