Calculation of thermal-gradient-induced stress birefringence in slab lasers-I

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 909-916

  Chen, Ying ^a,b   Chen, Bin ^a   Patel, Manoj Kumar R ^a   Bass, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CALCULATIONS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PUMPING (LASER); REFRACTIVE INDEX; TENSORS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL GRADIENTS; THERMAL STRESS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

DEPOLARIZATION LOSSES; DIELECTRIC IMPERMEABILITY TENSOR; EDGE PUMPED SLAB LASER; SLAB LASERS; THERMAL GRADIENT INDUCED STRESS; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET LASERS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 3142679489     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.830188     Document Type: Article

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