Thermal and optical properties of diode side-pumped solid state laser rods

Optics and Laser Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 193-198

  Xie, Wenjie ^a   Tam, Siu Chung ^a   Lam, Yee Loy ^a   Yang, Hongru ^a   Liu, Jingang ^a   Gu, Jianhui ^a   Tan, Wilson ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Chartered Electro Optics Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Lasers; Refraction index; Solid state lasers; Thermal effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000228316     PISSN: 00303992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-3992(00)00042-6     Document Type: Article

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