Diode-pumped passively Q-switched and mode-locked Nd:GdVO4 laser at 1.34 μm with V:YAG saturable absorber

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20176-20185

  Yang, Kejian ^a   Zhao, Shengzhl ^a   He, Jingliang ^a   Zhang, Baitao ^a   Zuo, Chunhua ^a   Li, Guiqiu ^a   Li, Dechun ^a   Li, Ming ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND STATE; HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LOCKS (FASTENERS); PULSE REPETITION RATE; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

INTRACAVITY PHOTON DENSITY; LASER CHARACTERISTICS; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; MODE LOCKING PROCESS; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; POPULATION INVERSIONS; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; V:YAG SATURABLE ABSORBER;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLID STATE LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

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

EID: 57349152464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020176     Document Type: Article

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