High-power colquiriite lasers with high slope efficiencies pumped by broad-area laser diodes

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 259-264

  Isemann, Andreas ^a   Fallnich, Carsten ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER TUNING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MIRRORS; PUMPING (LASER); QUENCHING;

BROAD AREA LASER DIODES; DIODE LASER PUMPING; REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIERS; SHORT PULSE LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 2942733407     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000259     Document Type: Article

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