Preparation of fiber optics for the delivery of high-energy high-beam-quality Nd:YAG laser pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 33, 2000, Pages 6136-6143

  Kuhn, Andreas ^a   French, Paul ^b   Hand, Duncan P ^a   Blewett, Ian J ^a   Richmond, Mark ^c   Jones, Julian D C ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c GSI Lumonics   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DRILLING; LASER DAMAGE; LASER PULSES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

BEAM QUALITY;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 0013421543     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.006136     Document Type: Article

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