Efficiency optimization for a diode-pumped Nd:YAG ceramic slab laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 4388-4393

  Lapucci, Antonio ^a   Ciofini, Marco ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

DIODE-PUMPED LASERS; FACE-PUMPED LASERS; REFLECTING WALLS; SLOPE EFFICIENCY;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 22944447440     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.004388     Document Type: Article

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