Yb:YAG power oscillator with high brightness and linear polarization

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 2001, Pages 1672-1674

  Goodno, Gregory D ^a   Palese, Stephen ^a   Harkenrider, Joseph ^a   Injeyan, Hagop ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POWER OSCILLATORS;

LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0141616470     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.001672     Document Type: Article

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