Laser-diode-pumped Nd:YAG active-mirror laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1879-1881

  Kasamatsu, Tadashi ^a   Sekita, Hitoshi ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT SINKS; LASER BEAMS; MIRRORS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOANALYSIS;

LASER OUTPUT POWER; OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE RISE;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0031100770     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001879     Document Type: Article

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