Power scalable TEM00 CW Nd:YAG laser with thermal lens compensation

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 643-649

  Mudge, D ^a   Ostermeyer, M ^a   Veitch, P J ^a   Munch, J ^a   Middlemiss, B ^a   Ottaway, D J ^a   Hamilton, M W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER RESONATORS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL TESTING; THERMAL VARIABLES CONTROL; THERMAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

LASER MEASUREMENTS; LASER THERMAL FACTORS; SINGLE MODE LASERS; SLAB LASER; THERMAL LENS; THERMOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; THERMOOPTICAL PROPERTIES;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0034217330     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.883379     Document Type: Article

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