Z-scan measurement of the ground and excited state absorption cross sections of Cr4+ in yttrium aluminum garnet

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1086-1091

  Xiao, Guohua ^a   Lim, Jin Hong ^a   Yang, Sidney ^a   Van Stryland, Eric ^a   Bass, Michael ^a   Weichman, Lou ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT ABSORPTION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL GLASS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION CROSS SECTIONS; OPTICAL SATURATIONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0032634438     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.772180     Document Type: Article

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