High-power, actively Q-switched planar waveguide Nd:YAG laser with a hybrid resonator

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Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Xu, J ^a   Baker, H J ^a   Sun, F ^a   Russell, A ^a   Valera, J D R ^a   Hall, D R ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; Q SWITCHING; RESONATORS; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET;

ACTIVELY Q-SWITCHED; GAIN MEDIUM; HIGH POWER; HYBRID RESONATORS; HYBRID WAVEGUIDES; ND : YAG LASERS; UNSTABLE RESONATORS; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 55649091508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/assp.2005.mf45     Document Type: Conference Paper

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