Versatile, compact, TEM00-mode resonator for side-pumped single-rod solid-state lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 2468-2474

  Hua, Renzhong ^a,b   Wada, Satoshi ^a   Tashiro, Hideo ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LENSES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL PUMPING; SOLID STATE LASERS;

AUXILIARY LENSES;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 0001653195     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.002468     Document Type: Article

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