Composite Yb:YAG/Cr4+:YAG ceramics picosecond microchip lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 14516-14523

  Dong, Jun ^a   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^a   Shirakawa, Akira ^a   Yagi, Hideki ^b   Yanagitani, Takagimi ^b   Kaminskii, Alexander A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b KONOSHIMA CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^c SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; ETALONS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

BINARY STRUCTURE; MICROCHIP LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 35948960399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014516     Document Type: Article

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