Comparative experimental investigation of thermal loading in continuous-wave Cr4+:forsterite lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1627-1634

  Sennaroglu, Alphan ^a  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CRYSTALS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL LOAD;

CHROMIUM FORSTERITE LASERS; CONTINUOUS WAVE ABSORPTION SATURATION;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0032021684     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.001627     Document Type: Article

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