Free-running and Q-switched operation of a transversely diode-pumped Er: Yb:Glass 1.54-μm laser with high pulse energy and efficiency

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 194-200

  Georgiou, Efstratios ^a   Musset, Olivier ^b   Boquillon, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GLASS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL PUMPING; Q SWITCHING;

DIODE-PUMPED; ER:YB:GLASS; HIGH PULSE ENERGY; OPTICAL-; PERFORMANCE; POCKELS CELL; PULSE ENERGIES; Q-SWITCHED OPERATION; RUNNING OPERATION; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

LITHIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0003102450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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