Single frequency operation of a tunable injection-seeded Nd:GSAG Q-switched laser around 942nm

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 6131-6136

  Lin, Zhifeng ^a,b   Wang, Xin ^b   Kallmeyer, Frank ^b   Eichler, Hans Joachim ^b   Gao, Chunqing ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHING;

DIODE-PUMPED; OUTPUT ENERGY; REPETITION RATE; RING CAVITIES; SINGLE FREQUENCY; SINGLE FREQUENCY LASER; SINGLE FREQUENCY OPERATION;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS;

EID: 77949575166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006131     Document Type: Article

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