Diode-pumped high-efficiency Tm:YAG lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 12-18

  Li, Cheng ^a   Song, Jie ^a   Shen, Deyuan ^a   Kim, Nam Seong ^a   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^a   Huo, Yujing ^b   He, Shufang ^b   Cao, Yuhui ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ANHUI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; CRYSTALS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL PUMPING; REMOTE SENSING; SWITCHING; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

LASER-DIODE PUMPING; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; Q-SWITCHED; THERMAL-POPULATION DENSITY;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0001996871     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.4.000012     Document Type: Article

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