Diode-pumped Er-Yb:glass laser passively Q switched by use of Co2+:MgAl2O4as a saturable absorber

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 33, 2000, Pages 6188-6192

  Karlsson, Gunnar ^a   Pasiskevicius, Valdas ^a   Laurell, Fredrik ^a   Tellefsen, Jens A ^a   Denker, Boris ^b   Galagan, Boris I ^b   Osiko, Vyacheslav V ^b   Sverchkov, Sergei ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODES; ERBIUM; ETALONS; LASER PULSES; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS;

SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 0000670538     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.006188     Document Type: Article

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