Comparison of diode-side-pumped Nd:YAG and Nd:YAP laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5707, Issue , 2005, Pages 325-334

  Šulc, Jan ^a   Jelínková, Helena ^a   Jabczyński, Jan K ^b   Zendzian, Waldemar ^b   Kwiatkowski, Jacek ^b   Nejezchleb, Karel ^c   Škoda, Václav ^c  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c Crytur Ltd   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

LiF:F2 ; Nd:YAG; Nd:YAP; Q switching; Slab; V:YAG

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; HARDNESS; LASER BEAMS; LASER THEORY; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LIF:F2-; ND:YAG; ND:YAP; SLABS; V:YAG;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 21844434426     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.588233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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