Direct generation of high power Laguerre-Gaussian output from a diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 1.3-μm bounce laser

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7616-7622

  Okida, Masahito ^a   Omatsu, Takashige ^b   Itoh, Masahide ^c   Yatagai, Toyohiko ^c  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PUMPING (LASER);

ASYMMETRIC CAVITY CONFIGURATION; BOUNCE LASER; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN MODE;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34250191470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007616     Document Type: Article

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