Miniature, "eye-safe" solid-state lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3186, Issue , 1997, Pages 292-295

  Kopczynski K ^a   Mierczyk, Z ^a   Kaczmarek, S ^a  

^a MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

"Eye safe" lasers; Frequency conversion; Giant pulse lasers; Passive Q swiching; Solid state lasers

Indexed keywords

'EYE SAFE' LASERS; FREQUENCY CONVERSION; GIANT-PULSE LASERS; LIDAR TECHNIQUES; ND:YAG CRYSTALS; OUTPUT CHARACTERISTICS; PASSIVE Q-SWICHING; UV RADIATIONS; YAP CRYSTALS;

CRYSTALS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; LASERS; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL RADAR; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOLID STATE LASERS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 33751220906     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.280509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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