Efficient TEM00 operation of Nd:YVO4 laser end pumped by fibre-coupled diode laser

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 775-777

  Zhang, J ^a,b   Quade, M ^a   Du, K M ^a   Liao, Y ^a,c   Falter, S ^a   Baumann, M ^a   Loosen, P ^a   Poprawe, R ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Hanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics Shanghai   (China)

Author keywords

Solid lasers

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LENSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MIRRORS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

FIBRE COUPLED DIODE LASER; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0031122009     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19970518     Document Type: Article

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