Hollow fiber optics with improved durability for high-peak-power pulses of Q-switched Nd:YAG lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1279-1282

  Matsuura, Yuji ^a   Tsuchiuchi, Akio ^a   Noguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Miyagi, Mitsunobu ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SENDAI NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DURABILITY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LASER PULSES; METALLIC FILMS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; WAVEGUIDES;

ALUMINUM-COATED HOLLOW FIBERS; GLASS SUBSTRATES; HIGH-PEAK-POWER PULSES;

FIBER OPTICS;

ALUMINUM; NEODYMIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YTTRIUM; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET; YTTRIUM-ALUMINUM-GARNET;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; STANDARD;

ALUMINUM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS; NEODYMIUM; YTTRIUM;

EID: 34047149486     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.001279     Document Type: Article

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