Diode pumped CW Nd:YAG laser operating at 938.5nm

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 553-554

  Koch, R ^a   Clarkson, W A ^a   Hanna, D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optical pumping; Solid lasers

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DIODES; LASER RESONATORS; LENSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BEAM SHAPING; NEODYMIUM YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET LASER;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0030109223     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960400     Document Type: Article

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