Yellow-green 52.3W laser at 556nm based on frequency doubling of a diode side-pumped Q-switched Nd:YAG laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 3465-3469

  Wang, Zhichao ^a,b   Peng, Qinjun ^a   Bo, Yong ^a   Xu, Jialin ^a   Xie, Shiyong ^a,b   Li, Chaoyang ^a   Xu, Yiting ^a,b   Yang, Feng ^a,b   Wang, Yuanbin ^a   Cui, Dafu ^a   Xu, Zuyan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODES; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PUMPING (LASER);

DIODE SIDE PUMPED; FREQUENCY-DOUBLING; INTRA CAVITY FREQUENCY DOUBLING; LITHIUM TRIBORATE CRYSTAL; OPTICAL-TO-OPTICAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; Q SWITCHED ND:YAG LASER; YELLOW-GREEN LASERS;

LASER MIRRORS;

EID: 77955937149     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.003465     Document Type: Article

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