YAP versus YAG as a diode-pumped host for thulium

Optics Communications

Volumn 148, Issue 4-6, 1998, Pages 265-269

  Elder, I F ^a   Payne, M J P ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PUMPING (LASER); THULIUM;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 0346312153     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00714-1     Document Type: Article

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