Diode-end-pumped electro-optically Q-switched Nd:YLF slab laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2940-2943

  Zhang, Hengli ^a   Du, Keming ^a   Li, Daijun ^a   Shi, Peng ^a   Wang, Yongdong ^a   Diart, Robert ^a  

^a EdgeWave GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COOLING; LASER PULSES; LENSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS;

MAGNIFICATION; PUMP POWER; REPETITION RATES; SLAB LASERS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 2542428349     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002940     Document Type: Article

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