High power Q-switched Tm:YALO lasers

OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series

Volumn 94, Issue , 2004, Pages 329-332

  Sullivan, Amy C ^a   Zakel, Andrew ^a   Wagner, Gregory J ^a   Gwin, Douglas ^a   Tiemann, Bruce ^a   Stoneman, Robert C ^a   Malm, Andrew I R ^a  

^a Division of Coherent Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH POWER LASERS; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; THULIUM;

LASER RODS; LASER SOURCES; PULSE REPETITION RATE (PRR);

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 8744258616     PISSN: 10945695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/assp.2004.329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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