Room-temperature, diode-pumped Ho:Tm:YLF laser amplifiers generating 700 mJ at 2-μm

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 199-201

  Williams Byrd, Julie A ^a   Singh, Upendra N ^a   Barnes, Norman P ^a   Lockard, George E ^a   Modlin, Edward A ^a   Yu, Jirong ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Diode laser arrays; Lidar; Optical amplifiers; Rare earth and transition metal solid state lasers

Indexed keywords

DIODE AMPLIFIERS; DIODES; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL RADAR; SOLID STATE LASERS; TRANSITION METALS; YLF LASERS;

DIODE LASER ARRAY; DIODE-PUMPED; LASER AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL-TO-OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; OUTPUT ENERGY; Q-SWITCHED; RARE-EARTH AND TRANSITION METAL SOLID-STATE LASERS;

RARE EARTHS;

EID: 85135476758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

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