Compact Active Mirror Laser (CAMIL)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4630, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-12

  Vetrovec, John ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active mirror; Beam quality; Disk laser; Solid state lasers; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT REFLECTION; MIRRORS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

COMPACT ACTIVE MIRROR LASER (CAMIL);

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0036403559     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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