High-efficiency diode-pumped Q-switched Yb:Er:glass laser

Optics Communications

Volumn 185, Issue 4-6, 2000, Pages 399-405

  Levoshkin, A ^a   Petrov, A ^a   Montagne, J E ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR LASER PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b Route de Nozay 91460 ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; OPTICAL PUMPING; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

ERBIUM GLASS LASERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0034317130     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(00)01012-9     Document Type: Article

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