Passively q–switched quasi–three–level laser and its intracavity frequency doubling

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1075-1081

  Weng, Chun Wei ^a   Weng, Yi Lung ^a   Huang, Pi Ling ^a   Cheng, Huy Zu ^a   Huang, Sheng Lung ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; Q SWITCHING; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

BLUE LASERS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0037138296     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001075     Document Type: Article

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