Laser resonator with balanced thermal lenses

Optics Communications

Volumn 190, Issue 1-6, 2001, Pages 327-331

  Graf, Th ^a   Wyss, E ^a   Roth, M ^a   Weber, H P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Compensation for the thermally induced lens; Thermal lens

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

THERMAL LENSES;

LASER RESONATORS;

EID: 0035312792     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(01)01111-7     Document Type: Article

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