Actively Q-switched Nd:YVO4 laser using an electro-optic periodically poled lithium niobate crystal as a laser Q-switch

Optics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 1460-1462

  Chen, Y H ^a   Huang, Y C ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; LASER PULSES; LITHIUM NIOBATE; NEODYMIUM LASERS;

LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTALS;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 0041425162     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.001460     Document Type: Article

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