High-repetition rate Q-switched Nd:YVO4 laser with a composite semiconductor absorber

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 6616-6619

  Wang, Yong Gang ^a   Ma, Xiao Yu ^b   Peng, Ji Ying ^b   Tan, Hui Ming ^b   Qian, Long Sheng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^b CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

COMPOSITE SEMICONDUCTOR ABSORBERS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; OUTPUT POWER; PUMP POWER;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 33750330527     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.006616     Document Type: Article

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