Microchip laser - A comparison between gradient-index lens and ball-lens for pump-laser diode coupling

Optics Communications

Volumn 235, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 175-182

  Kopp, Christophe ^a   Fulbert, Laurent ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

Ball lens; Gradient index lens; Microchip laser

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; EVAPORATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PUMPING (LASER); SOLID STATE LASERS;

BALL-LENS; GRADIENT-INDEX LENSES; MICROCHIP-LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 1842711198     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2004.03.015     Document Type: Article

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