Development of Solid-State Disk Laser for High-Average Power

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4968, Issue , 2003, Pages 54-64

  Vetrovec, John ^a   Koumvakalis, Andrea ^a   Shah, Rashmi ^a   Endo, Tom ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active mirror; Disk laser; Edge pumping; Solid state laser

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PUMPING (LASER); RADIATION DECONTAMINATION;

ACTIVE MIRROR AMPLIFIERS (AMA); THERMO-OPTICAL DISTORTIONS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0141493768     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.478955     Document Type: Conference Paper

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