Smaller output beam divergence in the slowly opened Q-switch operation

Optical Review

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 69-76

  Chen, Junewen ^a   Lin, Jun Ting ^a   Mang, Ou Yang ^b  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Beam divergence; Fast opened switch; Pockels' cell; Porro resonator; Q switched modulation; Slowly opened switch

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746862163     PISSN: 13406000     EISSN: 13499432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10043-006-0069-7     Document Type: Article

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