Entropy balance of optically pumped cw lasers

Optics Communications

Volumn 148, Issue 4-6, 1998, Pages 256-260

  Graf, Th ^a   Balmer, J E ^a   Weber, H P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Entropy; Laser; Second law of thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; ENTROPY; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

THERMODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY LIMIT;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 0032026658     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00713-X     Document Type: Article

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