Efficient continuous-wave and q-switched operation of a 946-nm nd: Yag laser pumped by an injection-locked broad-area diode laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 3961-3970

  Lindsay, Ian D ^a   Ebrahimzadeh, Majid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

INJECTION LOCKED BROAD AREA DIODE LASER; INJECTION LOCKING; PUMP BEAM QUALITY;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0032096877     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.003961     Document Type: Article

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