Efficient, high power, Q-switched Nd:YLF slab laser end-pumped by diode stack

Optics Communications

Volumn 250, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 157-162

  Zhang, Hengli ^a,b   Li, Daijun ^a,b   Shi, Peng ^a   Diart, Rober ^a   Shell, Alexander ^a   Haas, Claus R ^a   Du, Keming ^a  

^a EdgeWave GmbH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

DPSSl; Hybrid resonator; Nd:YLF; Slab laser

Indexed keywords

DIODE PUMPED SOLID STATE LASERS (DPSSL); HYBRID RESONATORS; ND:YLF; SLAB LASERS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LASER RESONATORS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 18444369333     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2005.02.001     Document Type: Article

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