Single-longitudinal mode Nd:YVO4 microchip laser with orthogonal-polarization bidirectional traveling-waves mode

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 18702-18713

  Ma, Yingjun ^a   Wu, Li ^a   Wu, Hehui ^a   Chen, Weimin ^a   Wang, Yanli ^a   Gu, Shijie ^a  

^a Photop Technologies Inc   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTOREACTIVITY; POLARIZATION;

HOLE BURNING EFFECT; LARGE BIREFRINGENCE; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; QUARTER WAVE-PLATE; SINGLE LONGITUDINAL MODE; SINGLE LONGITUDINAL MODE OPERATION; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; SPATIAL HOLE BURNING;

PUMPING (LASER);

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID STATE LASER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MINIATURIZATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 56149119245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018702     Document Type: Article

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