Single-frequency-mode Q-switched Nd:YAG and Er:glass lasers controlled by volume Bragg gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 9199-9204

  Vorobiev, N ^a   Glebov, L ^a   Smirnov, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b OptiGrate Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; ERBIUM; GLASS; GLASS LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHING;

ER:GLASS LASERS; FLASH LAMP; LASER DESIGNS; MODE SELECTION; NOVEL DESIGN; PULSE ENERGIES; SINGLE-FREQUENCY MODE; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLID STATE LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 45249112517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009199     Document Type: Article

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