Nd:YAG 200-W average-power oscillator-amplifier system with stimulated-Brillouin-scattering phase conjugation and depolarization compensation

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1885-1896

  Seidel, S ^a   Kugler, N ^b  

^a Laser und Medizin Technologie GmbH   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); POLARIZATION; Q SWITCHED LASERS;

DEPOLARIZATION COMPENSATION; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0031186126     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.001885     Document Type: Article

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