Influence of Energy-Transfer Upconversion on the Performance of High-Power Diode-End-Pumped CW Lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 615-619

  Chen, Y F ^a   Lan, Y P ^a   Wang, S C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Diode pumped; Energy transfer upconversion; Nd doped crystal; Rate equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000462076     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.842104     Document Type: Article

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