Optimum crystal parameters for room-temperature Cr4+:forsterite lasers: experiment and theory

Optics Communications

Volumn 174, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 215-222

  Sennaroglu, Alphan ^a  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CRYSTALS; FLUORESCENCE; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT EMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ABSORPTION SATURATION; EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME; NEAR INFRARED LASERS; THERMAL LOADING;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0033896311     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(99)00701-4     Document Type: Article

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