Numerical simulation of a high-average-power diode-pumped ytterbium-doped YAG laser with an unstable cavity and a super-Gaussian mirror

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1018-1027

  Bourdet, Gilbert L ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIRRORS; PUMPING (LASER); QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOLID STATE LASERS; YTTRIUM;

ENERGY EXTRACTION; HIGH AVERAGE POWER LASER (HAPL); MODE-LOCKED LASERS; Q-SWITCHED LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 14844297017     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001018     Document Type: Article

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