Multi-pulse oscillation and instabilities in microchip self-Q-switched transverse-mode laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 16980-16993

  Dong, Jun ^a,b   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^b   Yang, Peizhi ^c  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c YUNNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JITTER; LASER PULSES; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS;

COUPLED RATE EQUATIONS; LASER-DIODE-PUMPED; MICROCHIP LASERS; MULTI-TRANSVERSE MODE; SIMULATED RESULTS; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSVERSE MODE COMPETITION; TRANSVERSE MODE COUPLING;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

EID: 70349212214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.016980     Document Type: Article

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