Solid state saturable absorbers for Q-switching at 1 and 1.3 μm: Investigation and modeling

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6871, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Šulc, Jan ^a   Arátor, Pavel ^a   Jelínková, Helena ^a   Nejezchleb, Karel ^b   Škoda, Václav ^b   Kokta, Milan R ^c  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b Crytur Ltd   (Czech Republic)

^c Saint Gobain Crystals and Detectors   (United States)

Author keywords

Co:MALO; Cr:LuAG; Cr:YAG; LiF:F2 ; Q switching; Saturable absorbers; V:LuAG; V:YAG

Indexed keywords

Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; WAVELENGTH; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

CO:MALO; CR:LUAG; CR:YAG; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; V:LUAG; V:YAG;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 42949124427     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.760946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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