Active laser resonator performance: Formation of a specified intensity output

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 33, 2001, Pages 6026-6033

  Cherezova, Tatyana Yu ^a   Chesnokov, Sergei S ^a   Kaptsov, Leonid N ^a   Samarkin, Vadim V ^b   Kudryashov, Alexis V ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE ON LASER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ELECTRODES; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM LASERS;

INTENSITY OUTPUT;

LASER RESONATORS;

EID: 0001305110     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.006026     Document Type: Article

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