Intracavity beam shaping of a Nd: YAG laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4629, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 58-66

  Gerber, Michael ^a   Kudryashov, Alexis ^b   Graf, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE ON LASER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Adaptive mirror; Beam shaping; Controllable mirror; Graded phase mirror; Nd:YAG laser; Super Gaussian mode; Top hat mode

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; FUNCTIONS; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ADAPTIVE MIRRORS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0036405467     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.469479     Document Type: Article

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