Transient frequency shift in a single-mode quasi-continuous diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1323-1332

  Cabaret, Louis ^a   Philip, Josselin ^a   Camus, Pierre ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FREQUENCY STABILITY; LASER PULSES; LIGHT EMISSION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PUMPING (LASER); RING LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CAVITY MIRROR; PIEZOCERAMIC TRANSDUCER; PULSED LASER DIODE PUMPING; THERMOOPTIC EFFECTS; TRANSIENT FREQUENCY SHIFT;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0034314293     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.890285     Document Type: Article

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