Efficient diode double-end-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser operating at 1342nm

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 2411-2415

  Ogilvy, Hamish ^a   Withford, Michael J ^a   Dekker, Peter ^a   Piper, James A ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CRYSTALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FREQUENCIES; INDIUM; LASER MODES; LASER TUNING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; THERMAL LOAD;

CRYSTAL FRACTURE; FREQUENCY-DOUBLING; LASER WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 2942750127     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.002411     Document Type: Article

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