Ho:CaF2 solid-state saturable-absorber Q switch for the 2–μm Tm, Cr:Y3Al5O12 laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 2576-2579

  Kuo, Yen Kuang ^a   Birnbaum, Milton ^a   Unlu, Ferruh ^a   Huang, Man Fang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Passive Q switching; Saturable absorber

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011759904     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.002576     Document Type: Article

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