High-power diode-end-pumped laser with multisegmented Nd-doped yttrium vanadate

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 16063-16068

  Huang, Y J ^a   Chen, Y F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ACTIVELY Q-SWITCHED; COMPOSITE CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL DESIGN; DIODE END-PUMPED; DOPING CONCENTRATION; END-PUMPED LASERS; LASER CHARACTERISTICS; YTTRIUM VANADATE;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 84879977267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.016063     Document Type: Article

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