High average power Q-switched second harmonic generation with diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser

Electronics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 666-668

  Lam, P K ^a   Freitag, I ^a   Bode, M ^a   Tunnermann A ^a   Welling, H ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER MODES; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; RING LASERS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

SINGLE PASS EFFICIENCY;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0032473643     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19980516     Document Type: Article

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