High-energy Nd:Cr:GSGG lasers based on phase and polarization conjugated multiple-pass amplifiers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2031-2036

  Jackel, Steven ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Moshe, Inon ^b,g   Kaufman, Alon ^b,e,h   Lavi, Raphael ^b,e,i,j,k   Lallouz, Raphael ^b,k  

^a SPIE   (Israel)

^b SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d Soreq NRC   (Israel)

^e Nonlinear Optics Group   (Israel)

^f NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^h TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

ⁱ BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k Soreq NRC Applied Physics Division   (Israel)

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Author keywords

Birefdngence correction; Gadolinium scandium gallium garnet; Phase conjugation; Solid state lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000667293     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601360     Document Type: Article

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