All passive synchronized Q-switching of a quasi-three-level and a four-level Nd:YAG laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 23987-23993

  Cheng, Haynes Pak Hay ^a   Tidemand Lichtenberg, Peter ^a   Jensen, Ole Bjarlin ^a   Andersen, Peter Eskil ^a   Petersen, Paul Michael ^a   Pedersen, Christian ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCOMOTIVES; NEODYMIUM; PUMPS; Q SWITCHING; RAILROAD CARS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TIMING JITTER;

1064 NM; GAIN COMPETITION; LASER CRYSTALS; MINIMUM DELAY; ND : YAG LASERS; PULSE TRAIN; PUMP POWER; QUASI-THREE-LEVEL; RELATIVE TIMING; STABLE OPERATION; TEMPORAL OVERLAP;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 78149452609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.023987     Document Type: Article

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