Diode-end-pumped passively Q-switched 1.33 urn Nd:Gd3Al xGa5.xO12 laser with v3+: YAG saturable absorber

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12052-12058

  Zhang, Baitao ^a   Yang, Jianfei ^a   He, Jingliang ^a   Huang, Haitao ^a   Liu, Shande ^a   Xu, Jinlong ^a   Liu, Fengqin ^a   Zhi, Yuchun ^a   Tao, Xutang ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GADOLINIUM; GALLIUM; NEODYMIUM; Q SWITCHING;

CONTINUOUS WAVES; DIODE END-PUMPED; LASER CRYSTALS; LASER PERFORMANCE; OPTICAL-OPTICAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVE Q-SWITCHING; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PEAK POWER; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSE WIDTH; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; YAG; YAG CRYSTAL;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 77953573524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012052     Document Type: Article

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