Spatial and temporal instabilities in a passively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser with a Cr4+:YAG saturable absorber

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 3972-3980

  Wei, Ming Dar ^a   Chen, Chien Hao ^a   Tu, King Chao ^a  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CHAOS THEORY; CHROMIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT ABSORPTION; Q SWITCHED LASERS;

PUMP POWER; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SPATIAL INSTABILITIES; TEMPORAL INSTABILITIES;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 4644260474     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003972     Document Type: Article

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