Accurate determination of saturation parameters for Cr4+-doped solid-state saturable absorbers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 241-249

  Sennaroglu, Alphan ^a   Demirbas, Umit ^a   Ozharar, Sarper ^a,b   Yaman, Fatih ^a,c  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHROMIUM; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CRYSTALS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ITERATIVE PROCEDURE; OPTICAL ABSORPTION SATURATION PARAMETERS; RATE EQUATION APPROACH;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 33644920967     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.000241     Document Type: Article

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