A 2 üm Holmium Laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 1193-1200

  Lotem, H Aim ^a   Kalisky, Yehoshua ^a   Kagan, Jacob ^a   Sagie, D ^a  

^a NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLMIUM; LASER PULSES;

CW LASER EXPERIMENTS; HOLMIUM: YAG CRYSTALS; HOLMIUM: YLF CRYSTALS; LASER ROD THERMAL LOAD; MULTIMODE-LASER OUTPUT;

LASERS, SOLID STATE;

EID: 0024029809     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.244     Document Type: Article

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