Random lasing in Nd:LuVO4 crystal powder

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 19591-19599

  Azkargorta, J ^a   Bettinelli, M ^b   Iparraguirre, I ^a   Garcia Revilla, S ^a   Balda, R ^a,c   Fernandez J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORATE CRYSTALS; EMISSION EFFICIENCIES; LASER THRESHOLD; ND-DOPED; RANDOM LASERS; RANDOM LASING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; TEMPORAL DOMAIN;

NEODYMIUM;

NEODYMIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; POWDER; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; LIGHT; NEODYMIUM; POWDERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 80053220385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.019591     Document Type: Article

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