Diode-pumped passively Q-switched Nd:YAG ceramic laser with GaAs saturable absorber

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 621-625

  Xie, Guoqiang ^a,b   Tang, Dingyuan ^b   Kong, Jian ^b   Qian, Liejia ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Diode pumped; GaAs wafer; Nd:YAG ceramic; Passively Q switched

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC PRODUCTS; LASER PULSES; PASSIVE NETWORKS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SILICON WAFERS;

DIODE PUMPED LASERS; GAAS WAFERS; ND:YAG CERAMICS; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 34547462528     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/9/7/011     Document Type: Article

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