Self-Q-switching phase-conjugation Nd:YAG laser with a stimulated-Brillouin-scattering mirror

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2102-2106

  Su, Hong ^a,b   Tang, Sing hai ^a   Qin, Yi qiang ^a   Zhang, Wei jun ^b   Liu, An ling ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b ANHUI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER BEAMS; LASER RESONATORS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; Q SWITCHING;

COUPLING MIRROR; PHASE CONJUGATION RESONATOR LASER;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 11244308201     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.002102     Document Type: Article

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