Diode-end-pumped room temperature Tm,Ho:YLF lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4056-4063

  Zhang, Xinlu ^a,b   Ju, Youlun ^a   Wang, Yuezhu ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FIBER LASERS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LASER PULSES; Q SWITCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

DIODE-PUMPED; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; ROOM TEMPERATURES; SOLID ELATONS;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 21244490459     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004056     Document Type: Article

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