Performance of a neodymium yttrium aluminum borate green laser pumped with a fiber-coupled laser diode

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 514-517

  Chen, Yung Fu ^a   Wang, Shing Chung ^a   Kao, Ching Fen ^a   Huang, Ting Ming ^a  

^a National Science Council   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; NEODYMIUM YTTRIUM ALUMINUM BORATE GREEN LASER; PUMP BEAM QUALITY; SPACE DEPENDENT RATE EQUATION MODEL;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0031695031     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.000514     Document Type: Article

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