Analytical model of passively Q-switched Nd:YAG/V:YAG microchip laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7193, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ŝulc, Jan ^a   Jelínková, Helena ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

LambertW function; Microchip laser; Nd:YAG V:YAG; Q switching; Rate equations

Indexed keywords

1338 NM; ACTIVELY Q-SWITCHED LASER; ANALYTICAL MODEL; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; DIODE-PUMPED; ENERGY DENSITY; GIANT PULSE; IN-PLANE; LAMBERTW FUNCTION; LASER INPUT; MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARE; MICROCHIP LASER; MICROCHIP LASERS; ND:YAG/V:YAG; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PULSE LENGTH; PULSE REPETITION RATES; RATE EQUATIONS; RATE EQUATIONS MODEL; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SHORT CAVITY LASERS; YAG;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; FIBER LASERS; FUNCTIONS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MODULATION; NEODYMIUM; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHING; SOLID STATE DEVICES;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 66749098420     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.808924     Document Type: Conference Paper

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