Resonantly pumped 1645 nm Q-switched Er:YAG laser with a ring cavity

Lingni ZHU; Chunqing GAO; Ran WANG; Mingwei GAO; Xin WANG; Hans Joachim EICHLER

doi:10.1007/s12200-012-0274-x

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