Intracavity second harmonic generation in passively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3110, Issue , 1997, Pages 232-237

  Pearl, Shaul ^a   Shimony, Yehoshua ^a   Lotem, Haim ^a   Roth, Michael ^b   Angert, Nahum ^c  

^a NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER NEGEV   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cr 4+:YAG; Intracavity; KTP; Passive Q switch; Saturable absorber; Second harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LASERS; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; Q SWITCHING;

CR 4+:YAG; INTRACAVITY; KTP; PASSIVE Q-SWITCH; SATURABLE-ABSORBER; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 5844385623     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.281337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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