Thermally boosted pumping of neodymium lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 3093-3098

  Lavi, Raphael ^a   Jackel, Steven ^a  

^a SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; GROUND STATE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

THERMALLY BOOSTED PUMPING;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0000547255     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.003093     Document Type: Article

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