Continuous-wave and passively Q-switched laser performance of LD-end-pumped 1062 nm Nd:GAGG laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 7584-7589

  Zhi, Yuchun ^a   Dong, Chunming ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a   Jia, Zhitai ^a   Zhang, Baitao ^a   Zhang, Yongzhuan ^a   Wang, Shanpeng ^a   He, Jingliang ^a   Tao, Xutang ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE; CONTINUOUS WAVES; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; MINIMUM PULSE WIDTHS; OPTICAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED LASERS; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 77950903231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.007584     Document Type: Article

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