Chromium ion valence transformations in Cr,Ca:YAG used for passive Q-switching

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4970, Issue , 2003, Pages 61-74

  Feldman, R ^a   Shimony, Y ^a   Burshtein, Z ^b  

^a SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Absorption; Cr:YAG; Oxidation reduction; Oxygen vacancy diffusion; Passive Q switch; Saturable absorption

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHROMIUM; CRYSTALS; IONS; LASER DAMAGE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; Q SWITCHING; REDOX REACTIONS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

VALENCE TRANSFORMATIONS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0242494198     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.483711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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