LD side-pumped passively Q-switched Yb:YAG slab laser

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 413-419

  Yan, Ping ^a   Wu, Haisheng ^a   Gong, Mali ^a   Liu, Qiang ^a   Li, Chen ^a   Cui, R Z ^a   Jia, W P ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diode pumped solid state laser; Q switched laser; Saturable absorber; Yb:YAG crystal

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE; LASERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; OPTICAL PUMPING; QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS; YTTERBIUM ALLOYS;

DIODE-PUMPED SOLID STATE LASERS; Q-SWITCHED LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; YB:YAG CRYSTAL;

Q SWITCHING;

EID: 2942657648     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2003.12.002     Document Type: Article

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