Sub-100 W picosecond output from a phaseconjugate Nd:YVO4 bounce amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 20816-20823

  Nawata, K ^a   Okida, M ^a   Furuki, K ^a   Miyamoto, K ^a,b   Omatsu, T ^a,b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUMPING (LASER);

AVERAGE POWER; DIODE SIDE PUMPED; HIGH QUALITY; LASER SYSTEMS; PHASE CONJUGATES; PHASE-CONJUGATE; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 70749093536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020816     Document Type: Article

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