High-beam quality, high-power copper HyBrID laser injection-seeded oscillator system

Optics Communications

Volumn 137, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 158-164

  Brown, D J W ^b   Whyte, C G ^a   Jones, D R ^a   Little, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Copper HyBrID laser; Copper vapour laser; High beam quality; Injection seeded oscillator

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; GAS LASERS; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER BEAMS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

COPPER VAPOUR LASER; INJECTION SEEDED OSCILLATOR (ISO);

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0031118658     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(96)00762-6     Document Type: Article

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