Passively Q-switched Single-longitudinal-mode c-cut Nd:GdVO4 laser with a twisted-mode cavity

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2755-2760

  Pan, Haifeng ^a   Xu, Shixiang ^a   Zeng, Heping ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAIN CONTROL; LASER BEAMS; LASER MODE LOCKING; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PASSIVATION; POLARIZATION;

ABSORPTION MIRRORS; POLARIZATION RATIO; REPETITION RATE; SINGLE PULSE RATIO;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 21244471934     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002755     Document Type: Article

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