Gain and Thermal Guiding Effects in Diode Pumped Lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5120, Issue , 2003, Pages 164-171

  Jabczyński, Jan K ^a   Kwiatkowski, Jacek ^a   Zendzian, Waldemar ^a  

^a MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Diode pumped lasers; Gain guiding; Passive Q switching; Thermal lensing

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRYSTALS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIRRORS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONATORS; WAVEGUIDES;

DIODE PUMPED LASERS; GAIN GUIDING; PASSIVE Q-SWITCHING; THERMAL LENSING;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 1842585760     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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