V3+:YAG as the saturable absorber for a diodepumped quasi-three-level dual-wavelength Nd: GGG laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3352-3357

  Huang, Hai Tao ^a   He, Jing Liang ^a   Zhang, Bai Tao ^a   Yang, Jian Fei ^a   Xu, Jin Long ^a   Zuo, Chun Hua ^a   Tao, Xu Tang ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PUMPS;

ABSORBED PUMP POWER; DIODE END-PUMPED; DIODE-PUMPED; DUAL-WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL CONVERSION; OUTPUT COUPLERS; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; PULSE WIDTH; QUASI-THREE-LEVEL; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; YAG;

PUMPING (LASER);

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLID STATE LASER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 77149161409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003352     Document Type: Article

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