Design considerations for high-brightness diffractive broad-area lasers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 796-806

  Büttner, Alexander ^a   Zeitner, Uwe D ^a   Kowarschik, Richard ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS LASERS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

DIFFRACTIVE BROAD AREA LASERS; DIFFRACTIVE RESONATORS;

LASER RESONATORS;

EID: 18144415840     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.000796     Document Type: Article

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