High repetition rate Q-switching of high power Nd: YVO4 slab laser

Optics Communications

Volumn 218, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 155-160

  Garcia Lopez J H ^a   Aboites, V ^a   Kir'yanov, A V ^a   Damzen, M J ^b   Minassian, A ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acousto optic Q switching; Laser modeling; Nd:YVO4

Indexed keywords

BRAGG CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LASER PULSES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

OPTICAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 0037443745     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(03)01193-3     Document Type: Article

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