Diffraction losses of Nd:YAG and Yb:YAG laser crystals

Optics and Laser Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 129-134

  Xie, Wenjie ^a   Kwon, Young ^b   Tam, Siu Chung ^a   Lam, Yee Loy ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b My Laser Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

SPACE-DEPENDENT RATE EQUATIONS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0035280490     PISSN: 00303992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-3992(01)00007-X     Document Type: Article

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