Solidstate Laser Unstable Resonators with Tapered Reflectivity Mirrors: The Super-Gaussian Approach

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 1172-1177

  de Silvestri, Sandro ^a   Laporta, Paolo ^b   Magni, Vittorio ^a   Svelto, O ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS; RESONATORS;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; SOLID-STATE LASER UNSTABLE RESONATORS; SUPER-GAUSSIAN REFLECTIVITY; TAPERED REFLECTIVITY MIRRORS; VARIABLE-REFLECTIVITY OUTPUT COUPLER;

LASERS, SOLID STATE;

EID: 0024032010     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.240     Document Type: Article

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