3-Dimensional thermal analysis and active cooling of short-length high-power fiber lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3420-3428

  Li, L ^a   Li, H ^a   Qiu, T ^a   Temyanko, V L ^a   Morrell, M M ^a   Schulzgen A ^a   Mafi, A ^a   Moloney, J V ^a   Peyghambarian, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIGH POWER LASERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUMPING (LASER); THERMOANALYSIS;

ACTIVE FIBERS; COOLING DESIGNS; POWER SCALING; SHORT-LENGTH HIGH-POWER FIBER LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 21244433930     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.003420     Document Type: Article

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