Fluorescence losses from Yb: YAG slab lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 36, 2003, Pages 7157-7162

  Chen, Ying ^a   Rapaport, Alexandra ^a   Chung, Te Yuan ^a   Chen, Bin ^a   Bass, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); COOLING SYSTEMS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); HIGH POWER LASERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OSCILLATIONS; PUMPING (LASER); REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLID STATE LASERS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL LOAD; YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS;

TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0346307431     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.007157     Document Type: Article

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