Reducing thermal lensing in diode-pumped laser rods

Optics Communications

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 383-393

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

MULTIROD LASERS; THERMAL LENSING;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0033749051     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(00)00663-5     Document Type: Article

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