Efficient and stable operation of a high-brightness cw 500-W Nd:YAG rod laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 2566-2569

  Yasui, Koji ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beam quality; Bifocusing compensation; High brightness beams; Solid state lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001447294     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.002566     Document Type: Article

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