Theoretical and experimental study on the Nd:YAG/BaWO4/KTP yellow laser generating 8.3 W output power

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12111-12118

  Cong, Zhenhua ^a   Zhang, Xingyu ^a   Wang, Qingpu ^a   Liu, Zhaojun ^a   Chen, Xiaohan ^a   Fan, Shuzhen ^a   Zhang, Xiaolei ^a   Zhang, Huaijin ^a   Tao, Xutang ^a   Li, Shutao ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; NEODYMIUM; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PUMPS; Q SWITCHING;

ACTIVELY Q-SWITCHED; DIODE LASERS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; INCIDENT PUMP POWER; INTRACAVITIES; INTRACAVITY PHOTON DENSITY; OPTICAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; OUTPUT POWER; POPULATION DENSITIES; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; PUMP POWER; Q-SWITCHED; RAMAN LASERS; RATE EQUATIONS; SIDE-PUMPED; THEORETICAL RESULT; YELLOW LASERS;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 77953575573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012111     Document Type: Article

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