High-power efficient continuous-wave TEMoo intracavity frequency-doubled diode-pumped Nd:YLF laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 800-807

  Peng, Xiaoyuan ^a,b   Xu, Lei ^a,c   Asundi, Anand ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Light Age Inc   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEODYMIUM; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESONATORS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

LASER EFFICIENCY; POWER-SCALING MODELS; PUMP POWER; RESONATOR CAVITY;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 14844295764     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.000800     Document Type: Article

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