Heat generation in Nd doped vanadate crystals with 1.34 μm laser action

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 4909-4915

  Okida, Masahito ^a   Itoh, Masahidc ^a   Yatagai, Toyohiko ^a   Ogilvy, Hamish ^b   Piper, James ^b   Omatsu, Takashige ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ENERGY DISSIPATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL LOAD;

EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION (ESA); LASERS, DIODE PUMPED; QUANTUM DEFECTS; THERMAL MANAGEMENT;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 22744449791     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004909     Document Type: Article

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