Flash-lamp-pumped Ho:Tm:Cr:YAG and Ho:Tm:Er:YLF lasers: Modeling of a single, long pulse length comparison

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 3363-3374

  Barnes, Norman P ^a   Murray, Keith E ^a   Jani, Mahendra G ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

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EID: 0000370226     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.003363     Document Type: Article

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