Cw industrial rod YAG:Nd3+ laser with an intracavity active bimorph mirror

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 2554-2561

  Cherezova, Tatyana Yu ^a   Kaptsov, Leonid N ^a   Kudryashov, Alexis V ^a  

^a The Scientific Research Center for Technological Lasers (NICTL)   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Active mirror; Intracavity correction; Solid state laser

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000692212     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.002554     Document Type: Article

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