Control of the thermal lensing effect with different pump light distributions

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 30, 1997, Pages 8051-8055

  Song, Jie ^a   Liu, Anping ^a   Okino, Kazunori ^a   Ueda, Kenichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Laser diode; Pump light distribution; Thermal lensing effect; Virtual point source

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000052294     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008051     Document Type: Article

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