Measurement of thermal lensing in Cr 3+-doped colquiriites

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 910-919

  Eichenholz, Jason M ^a,b,c   Richardson, Martin ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromium materials; Laser beam distortions; Laser measurements; Laser thermal factors; Solid lasers

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; CRYSTALS; FOCUSING; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUMPING (LASER); REFRACTIVE INDEX; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CHROMIUM DOPED COLQUIRIITES; LASER THERMAL FACTORS; THERMAL LENSING;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0032069647     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.668779     Document Type: Article

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