Enhancing performances of a passively Q-switched Nd:YAG/Cr4+:YAG microlaser with a volume Bragg grating output coupler

Optics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1617-1619

  Pavel, N ^a,b   Tsunekane, M ^a   Taira, T ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LASER   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODE END-PUMPED; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; MICROLASER; ND: YAG; OUTPUT COUPLERS; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; ROOM TEMPERATURE; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS; YAG;

CHROMIUM; LASER PULSES; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM LASERS; Q SWITCHING;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77954929062     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.001617     Document Type: Article

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