Numerical study of passive Q switching of a Tm:YAG laser with a Ho:YLF solid-state saturable absorber

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1685-1691

  Kuo, Yen Kuang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOLMIUM; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; THULIUM;

SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 0042383103     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.001685     Document Type: Article

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