Megawatt level UV output from [110] Cr4+: YAG passively Q-switched microchip laser

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 22510-22514

  Bhandari, Rakesh ^a   Taira, Takunori ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; NEODYMIUM LASERS; Q SWITCHING;

FOURTH HARMONICS; GIANT PULSE; LINEARLY POLARIZED; MICROCHIP LASERS; ND:YAG MICROCHIP LASERS; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PEAK POWER; YAG;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 80755187749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022510     Document Type: Article

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