Holmium lasers passively Q-switched with PbS quantum-dot-doped glasses

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 536-539

  Gaponenko, Maxim S ^a   Malyarevich, Alexander M ^a   Yumashev, Konstantin V ^a   Raaben, Helga ^b   Zhilin, Alexander A ^b   Lipovskii, Andrey A ^c  

^a Research Institute for Optical Materials and Technologies   (Belarus)

^b VAVILOV STATE OPTICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; HOLMIUM; LASER PULSES; LASER THEORY; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ENERGY CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HOLMIUM LASERS; PBS QUANTUM-DOT-DOPED GLASSES; Q-SWITCHED OUTPUT;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 33644599317     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.000536     Document Type: Article

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