High peak power, passively Q-switched Cr:YAG/Nd:YAG micro-laser for ignition of engines

Advanced Solid-State Photonics, ASSP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Tsunekane, Masaki ^a   Inohara, Takayuki ^b   Ando, Akihiro ^b   Kanehara, Kenji ^b   Taira, Takunori ^c  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NIPPON SOKEN INC   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINES; Q SWITCHING;

HIGH PEAK POWER; MICRO LASER; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PULSEWIDTHS;

YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET;

EID: 70449581999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/assp.2008.mb4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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