Nonlinear refractive index of ceramic laser media and perspectives of their usage in a high-power laser-driver

Laser Physics Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 500-506

  Senatsky, Yu ^a   Shirakawa, A ^b   Sato, Y ^b   Hagiwara, J ^b   Lu, J ^b   Ueda, K ^b   Yagi, H ^c   Yanagitani, T ^c  

^a LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c KONOSHIMA CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Laser driver applications; Laser ceramics; Nonlinear index measurements

Indexed keywords

EID: 15844431396     PISSN: 16122011     EISSN: 1612202X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lapl.200410108     Document Type: Article

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