Random microchip laser

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 121-126

  Feng, Yan ^a   Huang, Shenghong ^a   Qin, Guanshi ^a   Musha, Mitsuru ^a   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FLUORESCENCE; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT REFLECTION; PHOTODIODES; PUMPING (LASER); REFLECTIVE COATINGS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

INTERFERENCE FILTERS; LASER DIODE ARRAYS (LDA); MONOMODE FIBERS; MULTIPLE SCATTERING;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 13544257386     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.000121     Document Type: Article

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