Efficient cw end-pumped, end-cooled Nd:YVO4 diode-pumped laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 33, 1997, Pages 8611-8613

  Brown, David C ^a   Nelson, Richard ^a   Billings, Larry ^a  

^a LE Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Diode pumped lasers; Nd:vanadate lasers; Nd:YVO4 lasers

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CRYSTALS; FLUORESCENCE; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

DIODE PUMPED LASERS; VANADATE CRYSTAL;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 0031276471     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008611     Document Type: Article

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