High repetition rate dual-rod acousto-optics Q-switched composite Nd:YVO4 laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 21956-21968

  Yan, Xingpeng ^a   Liu, Qiang ^a   Fu, Xing ^a   Chen, Hailong ^a   Gong, Mali ^a   Wang, Dongsheng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUMPING (LASER);

AVERAGE POWER; BONDED COMPOSITES; HIGH REPETITION RATE; ND:YVO4 LASER; OPTICAL-OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; OUTPUT PERFORMANCE; PULSE DURATIONS; SWITCHING OPERATIONS;

Q SWITCHING;

NEODYMIUM; VANADIUM; YTTRIUM;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SOLID STATE LASER; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ACOUSTICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEODYMIUM; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OSCILLOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; VANADIUM; YTTRIUM;

EID: 72449210469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.021956     Document Type: Article

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