Absorption and oscillation characteristics of a pulsed Cr4+:YAG laser investigated by a double-pulse pumping technique

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1548-1553

  Suda, Akira ^a   Kadoi, Atsushi ^b   Nagasaka, Keigo ^b   Tashiro, Hideo ^a   Midorikawa, Katsumi ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL PUMPING; OSCILLATIONS; Q SWITCHED LASERS;

DOUBLE PULSE PUMPING TECHNIQUE; EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; GROUND STATE DEPLETION; OUTPUT POWER; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET LASER;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0033312590     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.792592     Document Type: Article

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