Chromium-doped LiCAF laser passively Q switched with a V3+:YAG crystal

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 36, 2001, Pages 6638-6645

  Jabczyński, Jan K ^a   Zendzian, Waldemar ^a   Mierczyk, Zygmunt ^a   Frukacz, Zygmunt ^b  

^a MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b ukasiewicz Research Network Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; CRYSTALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

TUNABLE LASERS;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 0038826489     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.006638     Document Type: Article

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