Continuous-wave and passively Q-switched laser performance with a disordered Nd:CLNGG crystal

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 19015-19020

  Yu, Haohai ^a   Zhang, Huaijin ^a   Wang, Zhengping ^a   Wang, Jiyang ^a   Yu, Yonggui ^a   Shi, Zibin ^a   Zhang, Xingyu ^a   Jiang, Minima ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE; CONTINUOUS WAVES; LASER PERFORMANCE; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED LASERS; PULSE ENERGIES; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 70350303985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019015     Document Type: Article

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