Diode-pumped quasi-three-level CW Nd:CLNGG and Nd:CNGG lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 19292-19297

  He, Kunna ^a,c   Wei, Zhiyi ^a   Li, Dehua ^a   Zhang, Zhiguo ^a   Zhang, HuaiJin ^b   Wang, Jiyang ^b   Gao, Chunqing ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY;

DUAL WAVELENGTH; LASING CHARACTERISTICS; LINEAR RESONATOR; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; OPTICAL-TO-OPTICAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUASI-THREE-LEVEL; SINGLE WAVELENGTH; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 70350303984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019292     Document Type: Article

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