Thermal lensing of diode side-pumped solid-state lasers

Optics and Laser Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 199-203

  Xie, Wenjie ^a   Tam, Siu Chung ^a   Yee Loy, Lam ^a   Liu, Jingang ^a   Yang, Hongru ^a   Gu, Jianhui ^a   Tan, Wilson ^b   Zhou, Feng ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Chartered Electro Optics Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Lasers; Solid state lasers; Thermal effects and laser diodes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347747962     PISSN: 00303992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-3992(00)00043-8     Document Type: Article

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