Highly stable, all-solid-state Nd:YLF regenerative amplifier

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 33, 2004, Pages 6180-6186

  Okishev, Andrey V ^a   Zuegel, Jonathan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; HEAT SINKS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BEAM QUALITY; CCD CAMERAS; ENERGY STABILITY;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 10444266676     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.006180     Document Type: Article

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