Control of the pulse width in a diode-pumped passively Q-switched Nd:GdVO4/KTP green laser with a Cr4+:YAG saturable absorber

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 28, 2005, Pages 5990-5995

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

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PUMPING (LASER);

LASER AXIS; PULSE WIDTH; SATURABLE ABSORBER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 28044437750     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.005990     Document Type: Article

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