Compression of the pulse width in a diode-pumped Nd: YVO4 laser with double Q-switches

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Li, Guiqiu ^a   Zhao, Shengzhi ^a   Yang, Kejian ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diode pumped; Doubly Q switched; Gaussian spatial distribution; Numerical solutions; Rate equations

Indexed keywords

BRAGG CELLS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT MODULATORS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS;

DIODE PUMPED LASER; DOUBLY Q SWITCHED LASER; GAUSSIAN SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; RATE EQUATIONS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 24744467758     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1870572     Document Type: Article

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