High resolution absolute temperature mapping of laser crystals in diode-end-pumped configuration

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5707, Issue , 2005, Pages 370-379

  Didierjean, Julien ^a   Forget, Sébastien ^a   Chenais, Sebastien ^d   Druon, Frédéric ^a   Balembois, François ^a   Georges, Patrick ^a   Altmann, Konrad ^b   Pflaum, Christoph ^c  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CADFEM GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; LASER PULSES; MAPPING; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BEAM QUALITY; HEAT EFFICIENCY; LASER CRYSTALS; THERMAL LENSING;

DIODES;

EID: 21844437836     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.593895     Document Type: Conference Paper

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