Experiments and numerical simulation of a diode-laser-pumped Cr, Nd:YAG self-Q-switched laser

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2130-2136

  Dong, Jun ^a   Lu, Jianren ^a   Ueda, Ken ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER PULSES; LASER RESONATORS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTIMIZATION; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS;

COUPLED RATE EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZED LASER PULSE;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 11244264129     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.002130     Document Type: Article

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