Efficient Q-switched Tm:YAG ceramic slab laser

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 727-732

  Zhang, Shuaiyi ^a   Wang, Mingjian ^a   Xu, Lin ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Tang, Yulong ^a   Cheng, Xiaojin ^a   Chen, Weibiao ^a   Xu, Jianqiu ^a,b   Jiang, Benxue ^c   Pan, Yubai ^c  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING;

ABSORBED PUMP POWER; CERAMIC LASERS; CONTINUOUS WAVE OUTPUT POWER; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DIODE END-PUMPED; OPTICAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; OUTPUT TRANSMISSION; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; Q-SWITCHED; Q-SWITCHED OPERATION; SINGLE PULSE ENERGY; SLAB LASERS; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; STORAGE CAPABILITY; YAG;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLID STATE LASER;

CERAMICS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 78751548588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000727     Document Type: Article

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