1.6 W of single-mode output power from a novel power-scaling scheme for monolithic nonplanar ring lasers

Optics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1635-1637

  Zimer, Hagen ^a   Wittrock, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAIN MEDIUM; NONPLANAR RING OSCILLATORS; POWER-SCALING SCHEMES; THIN DISKS;

DIFFUSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NEODYMIUM; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

RING LASERS;

EID: 3142730538     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.001635     Document Type: Article

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