500 W continuous-wave fibre laser with excellent beam quality

Electronics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 645-647

  Limpert, J ^a   Liem, A ^a   Zellmer, H ^a   Tunnermann A ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; POWER ELECTRONICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

POWER SCALING;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 0037666376     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20030447     Document Type: Article

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