Unidirectional single-mode Nd:YAG laser with a planar semimonolithic ring cavity

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 4566-4569

  Park, Jong Rak ^a   Yoon, Tai Hyun ^b   Chung, Myung Sai ^b   Lee, Hai Woong ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER MODES; LASER RESONATORS; LASER TUNING; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PUMPING (LASER); RING LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

PLANAR MONOLITHIC RING CAVITY LASERS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0032613899     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004566     Document Type: Article

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