Solid state thin disk laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3574, Issue , 1998, Pages 15-28

  Huegel, Helmut ^a   Bohn, Willy L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL LASERS; EFFICIENCY; FLOW OF GASES; GAS LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; SCALABILITY;

BROAD ABSORPTION LINES; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS; HIGH QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; LASER ACTIVE MATERIALS; OPERATION CONDITIONS; Q-SWITCHED OPERATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART REVIEWS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0008990252     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.334426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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