Optimum laser beam profile for maximum energy extraction from a saturable amplifier

Optics Communications

Volumn 123, Issue 4-6, 1996, Pages 762-776

  Paré, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTIMIZATION;

INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMUM BEAM PROFILE; SATURABLE AMPLIFIER; SMALL SIGNAL GAIN DISTRIBUTION;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0030080980     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0030-4018(95)00473-4     Document Type: Article

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