Edge-pumped passively Q-switched thin Nd:YAG slab lasers

Chinese Optics Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 364-365

  Cheng, Xiaojin ^a   Wang, Zhimin ^a   Chen, Fan ^a   Xu, Jianqiu ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; LASERS; NEODYMIUM; Q SWITCHED LASERS;

DIODE LASER ARRAYS; HIGH POWERS; ND: YAG; SLAB LASERS;

Q SWITCHING;

EID: 50549091213     PISSN: 16717694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3788/COL20080605.0364     Document Type: Article

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