Detailed performance modeling of a pulsed high-power single-frequency Ti:sapphire laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 5921-5937

  Wagner, Gerd ^a   Wulfmeyer, Volker ^a   Behrendt, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PUMPING (LASER); RESONATORS; SAPPHIRE; SOLID STATE LASERS; WATER ABSORPTION;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDARS; FREQUENCY INSTABILITIES; FREQUENCY-DOUBLED ND:YAG LASER; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; STRINGENT REQUIREMENT; TI:SAPPHIRE CRYSTAL;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 80155148885     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.005921     Document Type: Article

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