Diode-pumped doubly passively Q-switched Cr,Nd:YAG/KTP green laser with GaAs saturable absorber

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4713-4720

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

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

POPULATION-INVERSION DENSITY; PULSE SYMMETRY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

LASERS;

EID: 33744511427     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.004713     Document Type: Article

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