Nanosecond pulsed Bessel-Gauss beam generated directly from a Nd:YAG axicon-based resonator

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 4943-4947

  Wu, Fengtie ^a   Chen, Yunbin ^a   Guo, Dongdong ^a  

^a HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER PULSES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

AXICON-BASED RESONATOR; BESSEL-GAUSS BEAM;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 35448978306     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.004943     Document Type: Article

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