Flash-lamp-excited NdP5O14 laser
- 1 August 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 31 (3) , 178-181
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.89639
Abstract
A simple miniature room‐temperature pulsed NdP5O14 laser excited by a small Xe flash lamp has been made, with threshold energies of a few hundred millijoules. Output energies of 1.5 mJ have been obtained with less than 1 J input, and an order‐of‐magnitude improvement is expected.Keywords
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