High-power high-repetition-rate UV light at 355 nm generated by a diode-end-pumped passively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 2975-2979

  Jia, Fu Qiang ^a,b   Zheng, Quan ^a   Xue, Qing Hua ^a,b   Bu, Yi Kun ^a,b   Qian, Long Sheng ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HARMONIC GENERATION; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

OPTICAL-TO-OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; PUMP POWER; REPETITION RATE; REPETITION-RATE;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 34547312899     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.002975     Document Type: Article

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