1319 nm and 1338 nm dual-wavelength operation of LD end-pumped Nd:YAG ceramic laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 9098-9106

  Guo, Lei ^a   Lan, Ruijun ^a   Liu, Hong ^a   Yu, Haohai ^a   Zhang, Huaijin ^a   Wang, Jiyang ^a   Hu, Dawei ^a   Zhuang, Shidong ^a,b   Chen, Lijuan ^a   Zhao, Yongguang ^a   Xu, Xinguang ^a   Wang, Zhengping ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG JIANZHU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHING;

1338 NM; CONCAVE CAVITY; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DUAL-WAVELENGTH; END-PUMPED; INCIDENT PUMP POWER; ND:YAG CERAMIC LASER; OPTICAL-OPTICAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PULSE WIDTH; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 77952069510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.009098     Document Type: Article

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