A solar-pumped Nd:YAG laser in the high collection efficiency regime

Optics Communications

Volumn 222, Issue 1-6, 2003, Pages 371-381

  Lando, Mordechai ^a   Kagan, Jacob ^a   Linyekin, Boris ^a   Dobrusin, Vadim ^b,c  

^a ROTEM INDUSTRIES LTD   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Concentration; Efficiency; Laser; Nd:YAG; Solar

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PUMPING (LASER); SOLAR RADIATION;

COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATORS (CPC);

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0038480256     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(03)01601-8     Document Type: Article

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