Q-Switch regime of 3-μm Er:YAG lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1031-1040

  Georgescu, Serban ^a,b   Lupei, Voicu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC PHYSICS   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Erbium materials devices; Luminescent materials devices; Optical pulse generation; Optical switches; Pulsed lasers; Q switched lasers; Solid lasers; YAG lasers

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; ERBIUM; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LUMINESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; Q SWITCHED LASERS;

FRUSTRATED TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION (FTIR);

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0032095490     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.678599     Document Type: Article

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