Spectroscopic and laser oscillation characteristics of highly Cr4+-doped forsterite

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1497-1503

  Fujii, Takashi ^a,b,c,d   Nagano, Masahiro ^a,c,d,e   Nemoto, Koshichi ^a,c,f,g  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Ctrl Res Inst Elec Pwr Indust

^d JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^e TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g National Laboratory for High Energy Physics   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; CRYSTALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FLUORESCENCE; LASER TUNING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; CHROMIUM DOPED FORSTERITE LASERS; LASER OSCILLATIONS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0030211604     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.511563     Document Type: Article

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