Sensitivity of a three-mirror cavity to thermal and nonlinear lensing: Gaussian-beam analysis

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 36, 2000, Pages 6787-6798

  Anctil, Geneviéve ^a   McCarthy, Nathalie ^a   Piché, Michel ^a  

^a CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

THERMAL LENSING;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0346483202     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.006787     Document Type: Article

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