A planar waveguide Nd:YAG laser with a hybrid waveguide-unstable resonator

Optics Communications

Volumn 191, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 125-131

  Baker, H J ^a   Chesworth, A A ^a   Pelaez Millas, D ^a   Hall, D R ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Face pumping; Neodymium doped; Planar waveguide laser

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PUMPING (LASER);

PLANAR WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0035341854     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(01)01117-8     Document Type: Article

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