Thermal conductivity of a self-frequency-doubling laser crystal measured by use of optical methods

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1372-1377

  Shimosegawa, Masayuki ^a   Omatsu, Takashige ^a   Tateda, Mitsuhiro ^a   Ogura, Iwao ^a   Blows, Justin L ^b   Wang, Pu ^b   Dawes, Judith M ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

LASER CRYSTALS;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0038448917     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.001372     Document Type: Article

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