2.94 μm Er:YAG Q- Switched laser with Fe2+:ZnSe passive shutter

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6610, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Akimov, Vadim A ^a   Frolov, Mikhail P ^b   Korostelin, Yuri V ^b   Kozlovsky, Vladimir I ^b   Landman, Alexander I ^b   Podmar'Kov, Yuri P ^b   Polushkin, Valeri G ^c   Voronov, Artem A ^a  

^a MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Er:YAG laser; Fe2+:ZnSe crystal; IR lasers; Passive Q switching

Indexed keywords

IRON; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; Q SWITCHING; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

PASSIVE Q-SWITCHING; PASSIVE SHUTTER; SWITCHED LASER; YAG LASER;

LASERS;

EID: 36249000709     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.739825     Document Type: Conference Paper

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