Improved high-field laser characteristics of a diode-pumped Yb:LiYF 4 crystal at low temperature

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 455-460

  Kawanaka, Junji ^a   Yamakawa, Koichi ^a   Nishioka, Hajime ^b   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^b  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMISSION; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

OPTICAL PULSES; PULSE SHAPERS; REPETITION RATE;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 0242312822     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.000455     Document Type: Article

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