High efficient actively Q-switched Ho:LuAG laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 21691-21697

  Duan, Xiaoming ^a   Yao, Baoquan ^a   Li, Gang ^a   Ju, Youlun ^a   Wang, Yuezhu ^a   Zhao, Guangjun ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

Q SWITCHING;

ABSORBED PUMP POWER; ACTIVELY Q-SWITCHED; AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; HIGH EFFICIENT; MINIMUM PULSE WIDTHS; PEAK POWER; REPETITION RATE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

PUMPING (LASER);

ALUMINUM; HOLMIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SOLID STATE LASER; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALUMINUM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOLMIUM; LASERS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 72449175852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.021691     Document Type: Article

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