High-power continuous-wave Cr4+: Forsterite laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 33, 2001, Pages 6034-6037

  Ivanov, Anatoliy ^a,b   Shcheslavskiy, Vladislav ^a   Yakovlev, Vladislav ^a   Minkov, Boris ^c   Vasiliev, Alexander ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b PHOTOCHEMISTRY CENTER   (Russian Federation)

^c AYCO GmBH   (Germany)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; CRYSTALS; HIGH POWER LASERS; POSITIVE IONS; PUMPING (LASER);

PUMP POWER;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 0000793019     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.006034     Document Type: Article

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