High energy erbium laser end-pumped by a laser diode bar array coupled to a Nonimaging Optic Concentrator

Optics Communications

Volumn 145, Issue 1-6, 1998, Pages 105-108

  Tanguy, E ^a   Feugnet, G ^b   Pocholle, J P ^b   Blondeau, R ^b   Poisson, M A ^b   Duchemin, J P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b THALES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; GLASS; HIGH ENERGY LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); YTTERBIUM;

NONIMAGING OPTIC CONCENTRATORS (NOC); PLANO PLANO LASER CAVITY;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0030622949     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00389-1     Document Type: Article

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