A new approach to compute overlap efficiency in axially pumped solid state lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 125-133

  Kapoor, Rakesh ^a   Mukhopadhyay, P K ^a   George, Jogy ^a  

^a RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CURVE FITTING; EFFICIENCY; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PUMPING (LASER);

AXIAL PUMPING; BEAM QUALITY; OVERLAP EFFICIENCY;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0011009891     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.5.000125     Document Type: Article

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