Hybrid heat-capacity-moving-slab solid-state laser

Laser and Particle Beams

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 537-539

  Stappaerts, Eddy A ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diode array; Heat capacity lasers; Moving slab laser; Resonantor mirror

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DIODES; LASER RESONATORS; PUMPING (LASER); SPECIFIC HEAT;

HEAT CAPACITY LASERS (HCL); MOVING SLAB LASERS (MSL);

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0036945356     PISSN: 02630346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026303460220230X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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