Thermal lensing and thermal aberration investigations in diode-pumped lasers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3572-3578

  Jabczyński, Jan K ^a   Kopczyński, Krzysztof ^a   Szczȩśniak, Artur ^a  

^a MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Diode pumped lasers; Thermal aberrations; Thermal lensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000180362     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601094     Document Type: Article

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