CW Theory of quasi-three level end-pumped laser oscillators

Optics Communications

Volumn 123, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 385-393

  Beach, Raymond J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER BEAMS; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; OPTIMIZATION; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

GAIN SATURATION; GROUND STATE DEPLETION; LASER OSCILLATOR; POWER EXTRACTION; PUMP EXCITATION;

LASER THEORY;

EID: 0029779135     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0030-4018(95)00497-1     Document Type: Article

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