2.27-W Q-switched self-doubling Yb: YAB laser with controllable pulse length

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 378-384

  Dekker, Peter ^a   Dawes, Judith M ^a   Piper, James A ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; YTTERBIUM; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

DIODE-TO-GREEN CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; NONLINEAR COUPLING; PULSE LENGTH; PULSE LENGTHENING EFFECT; Q SWITCHED SELF DOUBLING LASER;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 15044358145     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.000378     Document Type: Article

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