Passive Q-switches for Nd:hosted solid state lasers

Optical Review

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 511-519

  Chen, Junewen ^a,b   Kung, Hong Chang ^a   Yau, Hon Fai ^b   Liu, Hai Pei ^b   Chen, Tzu Chiang ^b   Cheng, Chao Chia ^b  

^a CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cr4+:YAG crystal; LiF:F2 color center crystal; Nd:Glass laser; Nd:YAG laser; Nd:YVO4 laser; Plastic dye sheet; Q switching; RG1000 colored glass filter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034346192     PISSN: 13406000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10043-000-0511-1     Document Type: Article

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