Maximum value of the pulse energy of a passively Q-switched laser as a function of the pump power

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 5377-5384

  Li, Jianlang ^a   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^a   Dong, Jun ^a   Musha, Mitsuru ^a   Shirakawa, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SOLID STATE LASERS;

FINITE RECOVERY TIME; POPULATION DENSITY; PULSE ENERGY; PUMP POWER;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 33748685428     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.005377     Document Type: Article

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