Pump-to-mode size ratio dependence of thermal loading in diode-end-pumped solid-state lasers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1835-1840

  Chen, Yung Fu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; THERMAL LOAD;

PUMP-TO-MODE SIZE RATIO;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0034365311     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.001835     Document Type: Article

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