Highly efficient diode-stack, end-pumped nd: Yag slab laser with symmetrized beam quality

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 5872-5875

  Liao, Yan ^a,b   Du, Keming ^a   Falter, Stephan ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a,c   Quade, Michael ^a   Loosen, Peter ^a   Poprawe, Reinhart ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Beam shaping; Diode end pumping; Polarization; Slab laser

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008044686     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.005872     Document Type: Article

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