High power operation of diode-end pumped Nd:YVO4 laser using composite rod with undoped end

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 40-42

  Tsunekane, M ^a   Taguchi, N ^a   Inaba, H ^b  

^a Biophotonics Info Laboratories   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lasers; Solid lasers

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DIFFUSION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; SOLID STATE LASERS; STRESSES;

COMPOSITE ROD; HEAT DIFFUSERS; TEMPERATURE RISE; THERMALLY INDUCED STRESS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0030568237     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960038     Document Type: Article

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