Diode-pumped passively Q-switched Nd: YVO4 green laser with a periodically poled KTP and Cr4+: YAG saturable absorber

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1825-1830

  Li, Guiqiu ^a   Zhao, Shengzhi ^a   Yang, Kejian ^a   Li, Dechun ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER);

INTRACAVITY PHOTON DENSITY; PULSE REPETITION RATES; PUMP POWER; RATE-EQUATION MODEL;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 33645786587     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.001825     Document Type: Article

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